that way they can get the hell out of town before the shit really hits the fan.

There is a special place in hell for all of the "NO' voters

Why am I feeling that the answer will be "NO."

Listening to the media this morning you would have thought the decision was coming any moment. I figure they wanted the whole week to bash Obama if it was ruled unconstitutional.

my second choice is that they throw out everything including the popular parts of the law such as pre-existing conditions.

That will be politically very helpful.

.... why be accused of overreaching when killing the mandate WILL kill the rest of it. It will just take a little longer.

Individual Mandate=Conservative Solution=UNConstitutional
Single Payer=Liberal Solution=ABSOLUTELY Constitutional (the SCOTUS already said so)

Too bad Dem's don't bother with things like co-ordinated messaging or talking points. On that sad note, I want Howard Dean running the DNC again....

Destroying the good parts of a necessary piece of legislation, in that absolute and irrevocable a manner, for the sake of a few votes in the next election is pretty short-sighted even by the standards of American politics.

beat it to death Friday and then allow it to be a rerun all weekend.

PR 101

has at least 2 plan Bs sitting in his pocket, waiting to roll out. I know I would.

"On Thursday, the court could rule in one of three ways concerning the individual mandate,"

If the ACA is struck down we will be at the mercy of the insurance companies for at least another 20 years.
It will be all we can do to save Medicare.

According to Valerie Jarrett, there is an Executive Order in the offing. But then, what would she know, right?

Here it is. Read it and weep:

http://wonkwire.com/2012/06/25/white-house-prepared-if-health-law-is-overturned/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002853452

I can't imagine what sort of executive order Obama could issue on this that would not also be overturned by the Supremes.
The article you posted doesn't say much.

The Supreme Court didn't overturn his immigration action, and their decision this week supports it. And I don't expect Obama to play his hand until the time is right.

There may be a way that an executive order or some other little used / little known mechanism would enable him to change the rules on Medicare enrollment. (That's why I'm hoping for, myself, as an incremental step towards single payer.) Unless you are a constitutional and government scholar with massive research resources at your fingertips, the odds are there is far more that you don't know about what he can do, than that you do know.

Who knows? But the things we do know are that 1. there is always something you can do, 2. Obama has shown in recent weeks he's not going to roll up into a ball and die, and 3. he's not wasting time on the "bully pulpit" that the media is always crowing about.

#3 is a particularly important thing because 1. we know the media likes to just ignore him or look for ways to dismiss or diminish him, and 2. action speaks far, far louder than words. The media can't ignore his actions, and 3. this gives him a huge advantage over Mittens' millions and billions of Citizens United donations.

Mittens can spend a fortune advertising. But Obama can still overwhelm and dominate him, and totally define him through *action.* He's already put Mittens on the defensive on gay rights and immigration. I expect him to now keep Mittens on the defensive by repeated, key actions up to and through the elections. I think he has finally had ENOUGH.

Keeping your powder dry pays off *if* you let it fly at the right time. And for Obama and our country, there is no time like the present.

in which case, individuals must pay in to get the benefits. It's taken out of your paycheck or in the case of business owners, taxed for that purpose.

Incremental, as slow and painful as it is, is a safer route for the overall economy.

Medicare for all, in one fell swoop, would be totally disruptive to the current system and would increase unemployment temporarily right when he needs it to drop. But phasing it in gives the insurance industry time to adjust, and companies that are paying for group insurance time to adjust, etc.

Maybe some combination of buy-in Medicare for those rejected by insurance companies and lowering the eligibility age to buy-in, or something on those lines.

They are trying to minimize the backlash.

All 5 of them are unfit to hold the office they are in. The worst of the 5 - Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito - are truly demented. I'm sure they deserve whatever karma comes their way. Maybe karma's a fairytale but to spend this short time on earth making miserable the lives of so many others sure seems a bad way to etch your existence in eternity.

the Democrats should have NEVER allowed health care reform to be label 'Obamacare'. More of the the theater of the abusrd from the other side and it seems we let it happen. So now just because of this people are polarized even more so, and the real issues never even get discussed amongst many people that might have otherwise been open to discussion. It's sad. People are being played like tools against each other and its bullshit. You've got Democrats calling Liberals and Progressives idiots, and the right calling us all idiots. It makes no sense to me and it if weren't for shit like this label, perhaps less people on the right would be calling us idiots. This is a fact.

In NO other country in the ENTIRE World do people not want universal healthcare. NOWHERE. Yet why here? As I said before it is not American exceptionalism that is the reason, nor are we all greedy bastards. People are not educated is the problem, common sense is gone and that is a problem. The entire World see's it, and some laugh about it even.

Then comes the friday to which their subjects must yield.