Today will go down as the day when Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei went on a twitter tear with the #MalcolmX hashtag.
With the future of health care coverage on the line for millions of Americans with the new Obamacare Supreme Court case, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) struggles to get into line with what everyone knows is a preposterous position on how subsidies are supposed to work under the law.
It’s vaguely like watching 30s-era Communists try to adjust their positions to the ever-evolving party line.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) having to do a little soft shoe shuffle around his previous remarks on Obamacare subsidies which now run counter to the challengers’ position in King v. Burwell.
We’ve got two pieces coming later this week that I want you to be on the look out for. One is on an emerging dynamic of the 2016 primary campaign which is yet to get much notice. Most of us know about the fiscal calamity brought forth in Kansas by Gov. Sam Brownback’s effort to use the state to usher in the Lafferite Supply Side millennium. But that’s not the only state where this is happening and not where the 2016 implications are most immediate.
I wanted to follow up on the points I made in my earlier post about Rudy Giuliani, 2016 and the GOP clown car. This point is about Scott Walker. I’ve said before that I think Scott Walker is a seriously underrated 2016 contender – if only because the more talked about contenders were such weak general election candidates. I think that is much less the case now because he’s currently getting much more attention than he was only a few weeks ago. But the Rudy drama makes me think he’s less prepared for the national spotlight than I realized.
Aurin Squire: “But black respectability politics is more than self-help and discipline. It’s like living your life as a job interview. Forever. It is a state of always striving to impress and never arriving at the promised land of equality.”
Is Rudy Giuliani bored or feeling ignored? Is he suffering from some sort of age-related agitation? Or is he simply upset that people are not respecting the trademark he was granted to Terrorism (TM) and the study of Islamic radicalism after he personally tracked down and killed the culprits who perpetrated 9/11? Over the last handful of days Giuliani has said that President Obama does not love his country; lacks patriotism; wasn’t raised like “us” and now, in fact, is driven by communist sympathies that were inculcated in him as a boy. It’s rancid and gross. But it’s also Rudy Giuliani, so hard to get surprised over. But there’s a bigger story here about the entire 2016 presidential cycle.