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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:08 PM Jun 2015

Conservatives have white hot emotional meltdown after SCOTUS Obamacare ruling

Within minutes of news that the Supreme Court upheld nationwide tax subsidies key to Obamacare, conservatives reacted angrily online Thursday.

Lady Liberty
@LadyLibrty

Silver lining: #Obamacare CAN'T be fixed, contrary to @GOP blather. Now go for #FullRepeal (which our reps promised in the 1st place). #tcot

10:40 AM - 25 Jun 2015


Some went to Free Republic, an online conservative repository of ultra-right wing banter. “Treason!” wrote one in large font. “So truth just doesn’t matter anymore,” another lamented. “We are in la-la land as we continue to surrender power to alchemist in black robes as they read entrails and legislate from the bench,” cautioned a third.

Mike Huckabee took to Facebook to call Obamacare “un-American,” writing “Our Founding Fathers didn’t create a “do-over” provision in our Constitution that allows unelected, Supreme Court justices the power to circumvent Congress and rewrite bad laws. The Supreme Court cannot legislate from the bench, ignore the Constitution, and pass a multi-trillion dollar ‘fix’ to ObamaCare simply because Congress misread what the states would actually do.”

John Hayward, a writer at Breitbart, tweeted “Goodbye, rule of law. It was great while it lasted.”

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Conservatives have white hot emotional meltdown after SCOTUS Obamacare ruling (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2015 OP
If only they stayed melted down and oozed down into the ground Cleita Jun 2015 #1
Fox anchor: Decision "turned the Constitution on its head and put a nail in the democratic process." pinboy3niner Jun 2015 #2
Meanwhile, Republican legislators who actually have to run for re-election truebluegreen Jun 2015 #3
 

truebluegreen

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3. Meanwhile, Republican legislators who actually have to run for re-election
Thu Jun 25, 2015, 01:30 PM
Jun 2015

are heaving secret sighs of relief. Dodged a bullet...a little unfortunate in that sense.

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