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Wait...Romney is the "architect of Obamacare"? He wasn't even in Congress or the Senate. He wrote absolutely nothing in that bill.
Wait...Romney is the "architect of Obamacare"? He wasn't even in Congress or the Senate. He wrote absolutely nothing in that bill.
Except that the whole idea of the individual mandate is what Romney care in Mass. was based on.
Used to be, that was the Republican idea to reform health care. As late as 2005, Gingrich thought it was a good one. What happened?
To answer the question, of course it hurts. Republicans waited to bring the suit until it would come to a head during the election, banking on the fact that the SC striking it down would be a death blow to Democrats.
Romney's critique of Obamacare was always Constitutional in nature,
and so the SCOTUS decision would seem to dovetail with and reinforce him. In addition, a SCOTUS decision striking the mandate puts Obama in a no-win situation. His base will expect him to excoriate the Court, however, doing so would require that he double down on a deeply unpopular position against an institution that most Americans generally respect.
He either get's to deal with a disenheartened base which feels itself betrayed, or he get's to tell the 60-70% of Americans who think the mandate is unconstitutional that they and the Supreme Court can go get stuffed.
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