Senate Dems to make Elizabeth Warren Leader of Liberals. Really.
With the Court now poised to make its most nakedly partisan move in the slow descent since Bush v Gore in 2000 by upending the Obamacare subsidy regime, there’s fevered debate and prognostication about the fallout that would follow. Will Democrats cave and agree to major revisions of Obamacare or will Republican governors (faced with an outcry from hundreds of thousands of constituents seeing huge rate increases) get pragmatic and adopt the federal exchange for their states to keep the subsidies flowing? Who blinks first is an interesting and important question. But it leaves a critical player, perhaps the critical player, out of the equation: the insurance companies.
The usually subdued Linda Greenhouse, who covered the Supreme Court for The New York Times for years, is apoplectic about the court’s surprise decision to take up Obamacare subsidies even as the circuit courts are still grappling with the issue.
Here’s a sampling:
Federal grand jury has subpoenaed outgoing Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) and three of his aides in a criminal probe. Apparently it has nothing to do with this.
GOP used car salesman who didn’t raise any campaign money came from out of nowhere to defeat a seemingly entrenched Democratic leader that Republicans had bothered to challenge only once in 30 years.
Ed Kilgore blows up some of the myths about the 2014 elections that are already calcifying.
Republicans now want to haul Jon Gruber before Congress to testify about his remarks on Obamacare, lack of transparency, and stupid voters.
First they came for the bakers. Then they came for the rental pseudo-farms. A rural New York state wedding venue has become the latest religious liberty martyr in the fight against marrying gays and lesbians, drawing a $10,000 fine for refusing to host the wedding of Melisa and Jennie McCarthy.
I keep getting asked to explain this piece or hearing from others who are responding to my follow-up this morning without having read the piece it was based on. So I’m reupping my post about wage stagnation, the Democratic party and the dearth of policy initiatives the latter has to deal with the former.