GOP Governor (MI-R) vetoes series of vote suppresion/vote ID laws. “Voting rights are precious and we need to work especially hard to make it possible for people to vote.”

At the time, GOP’s Pavlovian response to the Supreme Court’s Affordable Care Act ruling was so predictable, it almost seemed worth ignoring.

But that was Thursday — political eons ago. In hindsight it seems like it was a pretty big error. Actually, it looks like amateur hour. It shouldn’t have taken Washington’s top Republican operatives more than a few minutes to recognize that attacking the mandate as a tax would put Mitt Romney in an even more uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the Affordable Care Act than he’s already in and, implicitly, give John Roberts and the Supreme Court a pass on the legal argument.

That strikes me, again in hindsight, as an obvious lose-lose. Read More