White House, lawmakers prepare for Supreme Court ruling on Obama’s health-care law
In this city of rumors and leaks, it has been an excruciating lead-up to the Supreme Court ruling on President Obama’s health-care law. The decision is just days away, but virtually no one knows precisely when it will come or what it will say.
Each day brings a new wave of speculation via Twitter and Washington gossip channels. And behind the scenes, Republicans and Democrats are strategizing about what to do in the moments and days after the most consequential high court decision in a generation — a ruling that will reverberate politically and in the lives of everyday Americans.
At the White House and on Capitol Hill, officials and their aides are spinning in advance and preparing their “day of” statements.
“I don’t know when it’s going to happen, so what I have in my head is, when we hear from the court that they’re going to announce a decision, I grab one or two of our staff people and a camera, and stand in front of the Supreme Court and comment,” said Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), one of Congress’s most vocal critics of the law.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-lawmakers-prepare-for-supreme-court-health-care-ruling/2012/06/14/gJQAzsKldV_story.html
