Mississippi Guv Tears Into SCOTUS For Upholding 'Socialist' Obamacare
Source: TPM
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) on Thursday railed against President Obama and the Supreme Court after the justices upheld the subsidies provided through the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
"Todays decision does not change the fact that Obamacare is a socialist takeover of health care forced down the throats of the American people without proper review, and it does not slow the massive and unprecedented transfer of wealth that is at the heart of the subsidy system," Bryant said in a statement.
"Make no mistakeObamacare is not about helping those in need or improving health care delivery," he continued. "It is about destabilizing our health care system, ceding more control to centralized government and replacing individual liberty with government dependence."
Bryant mentioned that Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the liberal justices again to uphold a portion of Obamacare.
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SHRED
(28,136 posts)ananda
(28,924 posts)Ugghh
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)He didn't get what HE wanted and he's having a tantrum.
All I can say is ha, ha, HA!!!!
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)lark
(23,204 posts)Giving people healthcare rights is a sin and travesty. Allowing the top 1% to buy elections with little/no restraints is a good thing.
What a bizzzarro world these Repugs inhabit where money is everything and the people have no rights but to kill other folks.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Next time there is a tornado, flood or hurricane in his state, he can look elsewhere for aid.
It won't come from the "socialist" federal government.
BeyondGeography
(39,399 posts)If you feel that strongly about it...
kairos12
(12,906 posts)would take public funding.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)A real clown car can hold an UNLIMITED number of clowns.
navarth
(5,927 posts)...those IDIOT voters put him there.
still_one
(92,548 posts)the opposite of what a socialist healthcare program would look like.
However, it is a thousand fold better than having nothing, and what is puzzling is the media phrases healthcare as a liberal issue. That says volumes about conservatives
n/t
Democat
(11,617 posts)Doesn't want you to have them too.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)onecaliberal
(33,014 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)52 votes to overturn and SCOTUS deliberations isn't enough 'proper review'?
WTF??
kairos12
(12,906 posts)Laser102
(816 posts)Along the way to your death lets bankrupt you and your family and foreclose on your house. The party of mean and stupid is alive and well. Unfortunately.
And I guess "government dependency" doesn't matter to him when corporations/banks are bailed out or helped by government.
Paladin
(28,290 posts)See if you can beat Fat Tony Scalia in the Sore Loser Sweepstakes.....
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Good grief! Is that the new buzz phrase for Republicans now? If so, they stole it from Bernie, and Bernie uses it correctly!
SpankMe
(2,976 posts)47of74
(18,470 posts)MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Who, if the paleoanthropologists are correct, were a very caring people.
47of74
(18,470 posts)These Mississippi Republicans are real pieces of work.
EndElectoral
(4,213 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)My goodness, I *slurp* I just can't stop *slurp* drinking these glorious, delicious right-wing tears.
Roy Rolling
(6,947 posts)riversedge
(70,478 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)forth by the republican Heritage Foundation as socialists. Who would have thought the republican plan would be socialists.
kairos12
(12,906 posts)If so, the governor is a taker.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,556 posts)These closed-minded freaks are making some great campaign commercials
for their next election.
Democrats ads will be cheap to make, just add graphics and voice-over
GOP Rantrums are priceless
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)Oh, wait, you CAN'T anymore.
Should I call
?
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)You sir, are an embarrassing DUNCE. Resign in disgrace you toe-sucking piece of shit.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)I think yesterday he said no more battle flags on state license plates .. ??
happyslug
(14,779 posts)Here is the actual opinion:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-114_qol1.pdf
ROBERTS, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which
KENNEDY, GINSBURG, BREYER, SOTOMAYOR, and KAGAN, JJ., joined.
SCALIA,J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which THOMAS and ALITO, JJ., joined.
Under the rules of the Supreme Court, when the Chief Justice is with the Majority he either writes the opinion or decides who is to write it. If the chief justice is in the Minority, the most senior Justice writes the opinion. In the past when we had a Conservative Chief Justice he would vote with the liberals so he could write the opinion and thus minimize its effect (Burger was accused of this extensively). While Roberts was in the five vote majority in the previous Obama care vote, here is vote was NOT needed, thus he could have voted with the minority and leave Kennedy write the majority opinion. I suspect he did NOT want Kennedy to write the opinion and shifted side to prevent that.
Just a comment on 6-3 votes, when the Chief Justice is the person shifting his vote.
bucolic_frolic
(43,556 posts)CJ Roberts seems to go along, offer common sense, but there is never
sweeping approval
Although I cannot imagine Kennedy offering much different
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)will elect a person like this. The people who did not voter for him are suffering due to their neighbor's stupidity.