woo hoo!!!!

Stop wasting time on "Obamacare" and do something of substance.

(Yes, I know it's a crack pipe dream!)

So, glad to hear this.

President Clinton can work on enhancements.

I wish SCOTUS could and would rule to overturn some of that
crazy redistricting and gerrymandering the Reeps have pushed
through in some states.. including mine, Texas.

Many people still don't have the care they need but 16 million more people having care is better than 0

Pete Williams on MSNBC just reported that. Regardless of whether a state exchange exisits or not.

Not only did the government win but the written opinion of the court read like it could have been written by the government, the court bought none of the plaintiff's arguments

Should apply to their critics too. Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

and if they're forced on you, give the equivalent funds to a far-right charity.

Problem solved!

and not buy health insurance. It's very simple. Of course, if you have a 'deeply held religious belief' that incurring a cost in breaking a law that violates another deeply held religious belief, well, then I guess you have a problem.

It's amazing how many people tout their 'deeply held religious beliefs' but get rather upset when actually adhering to them costs them money. Especially when they claim to be Christian. After all, isn't it harder for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle? Or maybe not - a lot of Christians don't seem to see that passage. Maybe only true believers can look at the Bible and see the truth that it's not really there .

Members of a Federally recognized Tribe living on Sovereign land (reservations).

a tribe to enroll you. Missed that one.

The demands of the state outweigh personal religious belief.

I thought they would have spontaneously combusted by now

Although their website looks like its stuck in 1992

the Vicars of Obama!

Both Fr's site and denizens are quite primitive.

I bet this on't be the last challenge though, just because these people are relentless.

Baggers heads exploding like it were a 'Scanners' convention.

voter rolls, Democrats and liberals of all stripes are *not* relentless, whereas the RW base, which is constantly being propagandized by well-funded institutions and operatives, never lets up. They are the energizer bunny, whereas our side will only come out to vote for presidential elections (and even then not always), ignoring very important local and state elections, as well as the congressional midterm elections. Then, when we do get a Democratic president, our side gets disgusted when he can't push his agenda through an entirely uncooperative congress.

Yes, W got a lot done--because his agenda was the same as what TPTB wanted, so they helped rather than hindered. But like Carter before him, Obama has never had even all the Democrats in congress on his side.

Of course with this stupid trade agreement, he does have the wealthy and powerful working with rather than against, so of course NOW the Republicans and the corporodems are willing to cooperate. Heck, I bet even Lieberman would be cooperative on this if he were still in the Senate!

Glad you're here! It's Celebration Day for sure around here! Our Day of Jubilee! What's bad for the baggers is good for all the rest of us! And ironically, those stupid thoughtless selfish jerks don't even realize - the ACA helps THEM, TOO!!!!!!!!

Usual suspects I assume: Scalito and Thomas?

Alito, Scalia and Thomas

Just FUCK 'em.

that is very funny! well played!

...played, indeed!

We could have fun playing with these potential combinations:

Thomalito
Thomalia
Scamas
Scathom

Scalitomas - a 3-fer

Scalitomas!

The three dissenters! (I see a movie here!)

Kinda sounds like a disease of some sort - perhaps a tumor.

I am totally procuring that one!

...latest suggestion to incorporate something from all 3 is SCA(lia)(a)LIT(Thom(AS)

Scalitas - which is to be pronounced ScalitASS

Well done!

...love word play.

2 of my favorite blended words that resulted from one of the words contests run by some organization are

Sarchasm - the gap between someone capable of biting wit and someone too stupid to get it

Ignoranus - someone who is both stupid AND an a$$hole

Whatever you wanna call 'em. Just Fuck 'em.

were the decision in favor of King.
This in response to a comment about Roberts being extremely pro-business

...and given my health issues, that might have killed me...ACA has literally been a lifesaver for me...

Scalia, Alito, and Thomas voted against.

shocked to find gambling going on here

Is really concerned about the reputation of the Supreme Court and how much Citzens united damaged it

...should be! He effed up on that one, big time.

He already had a chance to kill ACA a few years ago and didn't bite.

is a lot more fair in his decisions than most people here on DU will ever admit.

He seems to be the rare kind that can straddle both sides pretty well and for that I thank him.

Unless he's been living in a concrete lockbox, I'd bet he's got to be painfully aware of the horrendous damage that some of his rulings have done to this country. Like Citizens United and gutting the Civil Rights Act. He's the Chief Justice. So those lovely rulings have HIS name on it.

Roberts has epilepsy. He knows that he would never be able to buy insurance without Obamacare. Maybe, just maybe, he is thinking about other people in his situation.

Now permanently filed away where the sun doesn't shine! It's time to shift the focus onto the expansion of Medicaid in states that have not have not yet taken that step.

Since they don't exist.

And never have.

And never will.

Let's just be honest here. The GOP does NOT want to help people. They don't want to help you. And they don't want to have to be compelled to help you because they're too cheapskate and mean-spirited and selfish to do it on their own. If it REALLY meant something to them, if this issue was THAT important to them, it'd be solved by now. They'd have had answers. They own it all, on Capitol Hill. They own it all, at the state level, with a majority of governorships and state legislatures now abysmally stuck in CON hands. They could have gotten this job done EASILY with the numbers they've finagled into positions of power.

AND THEY HAVEN'T.

They HAVEN'T DONE SQUAT.

That should tell you all you need to know. When WE ran the table and owned the whole thing and Dems were in control of the House, the Senate, AND the White House, we got this done. DONE. Just in those first two years of the Obama administration. DONE. Then the bad guys grabbed control and look what's happened? A whole lotta NOTHING.

FUCK 'em.

IN YER FACE!

This is a get out of my waying, backboard swaying, I'm not playing, in your face, disgrace, shot.

We've suffered enough at their hands.

and rethugs...

EOM

debacle that was shoved down our throats.

I've been an Obamacare user for the past few months since losing my job. It's a miracle to be able to purchase insurance for the price I pay with pre-existing conditions like I have.

I'm all for single payer, but my ACA plan with all of its warts is so much better than how things used to be for the uninsured.

Won't surprise anyone now if he sanctions gay marriage

That has been my prediction for months.

Roberts' jurisprudence has a simple philosophy - Big Money Always Wins if it its interests are pertinent to the case.

To the extent Big Money cares about marriage equality at ail, they think it's basically good business. No real dog in the fight, ergo Roberts votes to uphold. And I don't think he or anyone with a lick of sense wants to take on Posner's Seventh Circuit opinion, which burned the anti-equality rationales to the waterline and dynamited the wreckage just for good measure.

And in any case, ACA has been a windfall for Big Pharma and Big Insurance, who continue to rob the populace deaf, dumb and blind. Nothing surprising about his vote here at all.

6-3 looks dead on. Roberts' questions appear to make him number 6. Can't wait

Appointed by a GOP President but turns into a pleasant surprise.

the repubs definitely told them to vote this way. They are f***** in 2016 anyway, but if the SCOTUS had taken health care from millions, americans would have trampled the teaparty and rethugs, same party really, into the ground.

It's absolutely as dumb as you think it would be.

We're going to be eligible this year! The open-enrollment program starts again in October here in California. By then, our daughter will be off my insurance because she'll be 26. Our son has his own insurance through his union. And my husband and I can go for joint coverage and save quite a bit of money!

Hmmm... I'm also seeing now that the key piece of the 1968 Fair Housing Act, too. DAYUM! Somebody on the CON side of that bench must be feeling a little guilty these days. Either that, or they're probably sick - just not feeling themselves lately...

WHO THE FUCK CARES!!!!!

Hot Diggity Dog!!!!!! Thank you God!!!!

I'm startled, stunned, shocked, and FUCKING ECSTATIC!!!!!!!!

I still think we should move to a complete public healthcare system, but ACA is a big step in the right direction and an adverse decision in [i[King v. Burwell would have bee a big step backwards.

The court ruling is a victory for Americans.

on the first ACA ruling:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002887958

Cue the Vonage theme!


rocktivity

Just FUCK 'em.

That's all I've got (for THEM, anyway)!

and it is a massive windfall for Big Insurance and Big Pharma. No way he was going to reverse course now. This fits in perfectly with his Big Money Always Wins jurisprudence. And that is one of the reasons why he will be in a majority upholding marriage equality. Big Money doesn't care about marriage equality much and to the extent they do they think it's good business.

I was going to apply for it this fall. Desperately need it. Now STFU is right. But will they?

paid big money for the ACA and in DC, money talks.

Knock me over with a feather!!!!!

now they'll have to come up with another plan to fuck America.

in and displaying their ignorance.