Supreme Partisanship

There has been  lots of talk lately  about whether it will be  good for Obama or bad for Obama if the Supreme Court votes against Obamacare or  if  they don’t, with plenty of convoluted arguments in  all directions,  so  I might  as well weigh in now, as I’m sure my  opinion  will be no wronger than most.

Justice is blind but, unfortunately, sometimes deaf and stupid as well

I was reading of a  right wing pundit today who made the argument that it would be bad news  for Obama  either way, and  I’d like to take exactly  the opposite side, for argument’s sake.
I’m just talking horse race here. (In real life, an anti-health care decision would be a disaster; people could die.)
Contrary to Republican screaming, I think most Americans like the idea of affordable health care. They like things that are affordable, that’s a no-brainer. Health is a good thing also, and most people care about it a little bit. Most Americans don’t even object to Michelle Obama having a vegetable garden or leading fat kids in jumping jacks.

So, if the Supreme Court strikes it down, it will become a rallying cry for Democrats: we need some new members on the Supreme Court. So, vote for Obama and hope against hope that one of those old farts, preferably Scalia or Thomas, steps down to “spend more time with their family” at some point in the next 4 years. Also, if they strike it down and, forgive me for saying this, people die between now and November as a direct result, Republicans will clearly be seen as murdering poor little kids, or a busload of senior citizens whose bus broke down on the way to Canada.
If the Supreme Court upholds the bill, it’s a clear win for Obama because he looks like an effective leader. Which he is. It’s the Republicans who are crappy followers.

I predict the Supreme Court will vote against health care, though, because they are, by a margin of 5 to 4, Republican shitheads.  The only  reason  they would vote to uphold the bill would be that a negative vote would be too blatant, too  obviously partisan and political, too unjustifiable.  It would prove to everybody that they are strictly  a partisan court, leaning to the right.  And, as they proved in 2000, and have proved several times since then, they couldn’t care less what people think.