Tonight's guests include:
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate
Neal Katyal, former acting U.S. solicitor general, successfully defended the Affordable Care Act in front of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Ezra Klein, columnist for the Washington Post and Bloomberg, and MSNBC policy analyst
And here's executive producer Bill Wolff with a look at tonight's show:





Oh come on. You had such a softball pitched to you for today's soundtrack for our conservative friends that may visit.
Stones---You Can't Always Get What You Want.
But if you read the provisions sometime, you just might find, you get what you need.
I went down to the Chelsea drugstore, to get a prescription filled. I was standing in line with Mr. Boehner. Man did he look pretty ill. We decided to have a soda. My favorite flavor, John Roberts red. And I sung my song to Mister Romney.........
C'MON LET'S PARTY..........THIS ONE GOES OUT TO HANNITY
You better stop,
Look around,
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes,
Here comes your 19th nervous breakdown
I know, it's only spiking the ball, but I like it, like it, yes I do.
well, after the spin and the name calling and the conservative rant.. a major win worth spiking.. now all we have to do is play by the gop playbook and kill any and all repeals they throw at it.. wont be hard and we can keep it up for years .. they gave us plenty of material and plays to do it :D
a comment about the fast and furious situation ,.....if it looks like a duck,....walks like a duck,....quacks like a duck,.....it's a duck,.....this is just a diversion tactic to stops us from defending women's right,.....and the hard sobering fact that we ,....this nation,....is in the grips of a cold civil war...dividing this nation,....throw it in the trash as news,....and get back to reality,..
I AM SO HAPPY!!!!!!
THANK YOU, MR. ROBERTS!
Really, the governments lawyers screwed their argument up so bad everyone though it would be thrown out. Glad he was there to bail them out.
A big shout-out to Ezra Klein who's article this morning "Four ways the Supreme Court could split the difference on health care" gave me hope before the ruling was announced, and lo and behold, his # 4 was indeed the way chosen.
Right on analysis again. Thank you, Ezra.
I do not pray as much as I should, but from hereon in I shall pray daily for Obama's removal, in whatever way God deems just . . . .
vengeful . . . merciful, I dont give a crap, as long as the douche bag suffers big time.
Amen.
Saw the interview with Katyal. The Chief justice he described simply doesn't square with the one who expanded a narrow Citizens United case to get the result he wanted. Where was the restraint vis a vis the political branches there ? He squeezed the toothpaste tube there until he had enough to choke the democracy out of the democratic process. And Rachel did not go there. I was dismayed.
Bober,
Just wondering if your God may condone deadly disease or assassination.
closing segment of the show, bit surprising Obama watches Fox, no?
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/potus-first-learned-erroneous-news-on-court-decision-from-cable-tv/
Klein: "You need to keep this thing alive for it to begin delivering . . . and for that the question is, 'How does Barack Obama get reelected?'" But is that fair to assume?
Romney loves to say he will repeal "Obamacare" on his first day as President, but it's not that simple, of course. The Congress enacts laws and only the Congress can repeal them. I'm guessing that even if Romney is elected and the GOP gets a Senate majority, the Democrats will fight to keep the law in place. They will be no more hesitant to use the filibuster to that end than the Republicans were in their efforts to block it.
Personally, I'd like to see Obama reelected, not primarily because of the ACA. (Mainly because of the alternative.) But I'll be surprised, in any case, if the GOP can deliver on its repeal promises without a protracted fight.
It was a victory for Real Politik! Without the additional 33 million taxpayers joining the health insurance roles, Medicare will go broke as the Baby Boomers demand and will receive more health care as we age. (I'm in that group!) I'm fairly certain that the Chief Justice was informed that economic catastrophe would ensue if the Act were held to be unconstitutional. Hence, he held his proverbial nose, made some really awkward arguments, i.e., the mandate is constitutionally supported under the taxing and spending provisions of the Constitution but it is not a tax for procedural issues.... (Ya gotta love SCOTUS since it appointed Geo Bush 5-4 to be POTUS in 2000 without letting Florida recount its ballots! ), and decided to save Medicare from financial implosion and Republican catastrophe when that most beloved and hallowed single payer governmental health insurance program goes bust and they will be blamed forever by an unforgiving populace for that necessity's demise. So, in this case, the Chief Justice played the role of the reluctant hero, for which he will take some heat from the Teal Partyers and other petty politicians of the moment; but, he is gambling that in the end, he will be seen through the lens of history as the man who helped stave off the threat of fiscal disaster for the health care industry in this country. I believe that his personal legacy and the Nation's welfare were more important to him than creating consistent legal analysis or currying present political favor.
The 'bold move' sounded good (on the 6/28 broadcast) but didn't go far enough. (Look how well it works in Massachusettes) You need to add "and Romney now repudiates it. " I think the Dems need to focus on the Mitt Romney Waffle,and Bain, because that's the way to bring attention to how unlikeable he is and it's easier, at this point, to defeat Romney than re-elect Obama. When the ACA becomes more popular (and the GOP starts taking credit for it) it can be expanded. People who choose how to vote on principle have already decided. The ones it is possible to sway, today, will vote for the man they like.
Why is that those people who put their lives on the line( Military, police,fireman) every day of the year 24 hours a day get pay and benefits thats are 1/3 of what the president and his cronies and congressman and senators, and their staff?