Given that the details of "Obamacare" are lost on the general public I'd say that's a pretty safe bet.

The details of "The Cat In The Hat" would probably be lost on a good chunk of the general public.

tenpoundsofcheese: Boudica's War Tampon: So, McCain has murder, Mafia, corruption, and lots of shiat hanging off of him. And so did Barry Goldwater. Given the choice between Obama and McCain,

McCain isn't running this in 2012 nor is Barry Goldwater.

Maybe you needed a thicker ply of aluminum foil for your hat?

Just how big are those blinders, son? Romney is running this year. And I'm voting for Obama again. Just like many many Republicans who are sick of what the Turdblossoms, the Yoos, the Cheneys and all the other scum have done to their party. You keep trolling for the 95%+ white party, the party that worries about the 1%. I'm sure they sit up late at night wondering how they can make your life better.

A Dark Evil Omen: I hope the decision strikes down ACA and takes Medicare with it into the bargain. Rightists deserve to what they're asking for good and farking hard and everyone else needs to learn what it means to have capitalists having their way with us without us having the little kneepads we get offered occasionally.

Over three hundred people had to die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire before regulations enforcing open exits were passed.

It took the sinking of the Titanic before they managed to push through real maritime safety regulations.

It took the Great Depression before it was realized that banks can't be allowed to run wild.

The Cuyahoga river had to get so polluted it literally caught fire before Congress was shamed into creating the EPA and passing the Clean Air and Water acts.

The PPACA is in large part the worst possible option for reform - Not only does it permit the corporate HMOs to continue to exist, it makes us all their hostage in an environment with zero demand elasticity (What are you going to do, not get treatment for your life-threatening medical condition?). If they win this round, I expect (given the utterly shameless nature of what they said before Congress during debate) that they will take it as license to go full retard, which may finally push people over the edge to realizing that this system is not only broken, it is evil and despicable. And then, as where previous catastrophes snapped people out of it and enabled real reform, we might see real reform.

Then again, the 4 previously cited instances of reform after catastrophe were before the right-wing echo chamber completely undocked from reality and became its own schizophrenic universe. I fully expected after the crash late in 2008 and right after Obama's inauguration that the banksters were about to be put back in their place too. I mean, take yourself back to 2008 - they'd just crashed the entire world's economy, we were losing over a hundred thousand jobs a week, people were carrying signs saying "jump you farkers," they were about on the same level as Nazi death camp guards claiming they knew nothing when it came to credibility. Who on God's green earth would listen to anything these maniacs say or want? Yet here we are, 4 years later, and millions of deluded tools actually believe that the banksters aren't the problem.

I keep expecting there to come a point at which the right wing's fever-swamp spittle-flecked insanity will reach a breaking point but it doesn't happen.

bulldg4life: Truman Burbank: What I'm wondering is if in their desire to "get" Obama, they overreach and make a ruling that takes down other longstanding programs.

Considering Scalia used his dissent in the Arizona case to talk about the recent Dream-related Obama executive decision....that sounds completely likely.

It'd be funny if they worded it in a way that destroyed Medicare or SS.

bulldg4life: Truman Burbank: What I'm wondering is if in their desire to "get" Obama, they overreach and make a ruling that takes down other longstanding programs.

Considering Scalia used his dissent in the Arizona case to talk about the recent Dream-related Obama executive decision....that sounds completely likely.

It'd be funny if they worded it in a way that destroyed Medicare or SS.

Why would that be funny? That's exactly what the Republicans have wanted for years.

Jonathan Strange: taxandspend: Kingly Weevil: What's Obamacare?

It's that thing where fat guys have a beard but only on their chin roll.

New York's hottest club is "Obamacare." This place has everything, Seth: death panels, a Hilary Clinton look alike giving mammograms, and for the kids, a pony ride with a horse personally circumised by Justice Scalia. *breaks Stefon character and covers mouth and nose with hands*

/spelling sucks
//somebody else can post a picture of Stefon



You are welcome.

Ambivalence: I'm sure with people like him around to tell us what to think about it we'll be okay.

/eyeroll

Wanna know how we know you don't know anything about Nate Silver?

tenpoundsofcheese: 0bama

FARK needs an "attractive and successful..." filter for this lame troll gag.

/ Numerals, they do not work that way.

MyRandomName: Upholding the mandate has effects for the young and healthy who end up subsidizing the old and sick. Either way a subset gets farked. So what is your point?

In other words: Social Security. Something we've run very effectively over the last 75 years without serious incident.