Other it. justice breyer seems to shut the door at least in my reading of the language to the idea you would get back in court anything like this type of challenge that would require what we might call a governmental or theoretical approach. that is to say, not a case where a person says, oh, the way obamacare works has injured me, let me show you how. but it s state versus federal, which is the history. we ve seen conservative states find any which way to challenge. looking at one part of the authority opinion here, breyer writes, cannot support the indications that support them. our case speaks to a certain injury of the state s threatened enforcement today or in the future. translation, quote, you can t just say because there s a rule from the feds you don t like, you re injured. a lot of this if you want to
Conducted in the left lane. bret: what about i was struck by i talked about earlier how president obama made a comeback in this debate. the first debate, second debate it wasn t that cold before president obama and lesueur joe biden. this one, he got some praise. i think many of the democrats are the criticisms that it was not exactly smart politics to be beating up on a very popular foreign president and the democratic primary we have a little montage we put together, take a look. i m for barack. i think the obamacare works. we all owe a huge debt to president obama, who is fundamentally transformed health care in america and committed this country to health care for every human being. what i favor is something that what barack obama wanted to do from the very beginning, and that is a public option. i want to give credit first to barack obama for really bringing us this far. of course we owe a debt of
All that. but it does more than sort of push back on the medicare for all wing of the party, which is where a lot of the democrats running for 2020 want to go. it also has an appeal to the more independent voters and perhaps even some republicans. remember, the preexisting condition protection over obamacare is extremely popular not just with democrats, but also a lot of republicans, too. it makes a personal story for him which has people connect to him, it pushes back on the far left wing of the democratic party by saying obamacare works and it sort of reaches across the aisle to the independent voters who otherwise might vote republican because of the protections for preexisting conditions are so popular. ron, i m going to ask you to look three years back in history and remember a campaign where the democratic party had a long-time front-runner that a lot of the party folks said this is our safe bet. and then they had another
So no, no, obama no, i worked for the first two years in the white house. obama tried to work with republicans on no, he didn t. no, he didn t. yes, he did, and they did not want to come to the table. that s ridiculous. obamacare works. it s working. there are parts that need to be fixed the bottom line is, i think it s rich that the democrats come out and talk about the deficit when the deficit went from $10 trillion to $20 trillion we re just repeating you guys. this is your talking point! it s such hypocrisy. we believe the reason the deficit grew so bad is because growth was so horrible. so what mike is talking about, look, these two folks don t believe if you put more money into the hands of businesses and people, that the economy will grow everyday people, i m all about. everyday people, yes. as you know, president obama and democrats were for a corporate tax reduction. president obama was for a corporate tax reduction. a corporate restructuring. a reform. the idea that this is somehow a heresy is not. so here s to me, this is so telling. so this is the omb director of
Plan. that s what he is doing. i m a highly paid lawyer. why should they subsidize your insurance? excuse me. i know you know. jack, don t go spreading this information. i know you know how obamacare works. it i did not say it s subsidized. i purchase through the obamacare market place. i am not subsidized. then it is subsidized. no, no, no. to sally s point, if these increased premiums will hurt the middle class and the middle class is looking for assurances and tax reform that will help them, what is going to be the argument and the plan in place from the white house to say if obamacare is not there or affordable health care is not