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former9thward Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-28-11 02:02 PM
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17. The HCR bill is unique.
The central part of the HCR law is the mandate. Never before has the federal government ordered citizens to buy services from a third party.
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  -Why Obama Wants Health Care Before the Supreme Court babylonsister  Sep-28-11 06:11 AM   #0 
  - With Clarence Thomas making the deciding vote against HCR . . . which might explain why  leveymg   Sep-28-11 06:14 AM   #1 
  - Thomas does not have any more of a deciding vote  Inuca   Sep-28-11 06:49 AM   #5 
     - Clarence will most certainly vote against. He is the 5th vote to kill HCR in SCOTUS.  leveymg   Sep-28-11 07:02 AM   #6 
        - Of course he will vote against  Inuca   Sep-28-11 07:16 AM   #8 
        - He's deciding if the usual conservative bloc (including Kennedy) goes against - by deciding, I mean  leveymg   Sep-28-11 07:19 AM   #9 
        - Weiner's actions would have led to same place even if he never mentioned the name "Thomas"  karynnj   Sep-28-11 07:28 AM   #11 
           - Thomas violated criminal law. He can & should be indicted. As for Weiner, they went after him  leveymg   Sep-28-11 09:16 AM   #13 
              - A la Monica??  karynnj   Sep-28-11 09:33 AM   #14 
  - I can assure you that the President does not want the SCOTUS to strike down mandate.  blueclown   Sep-28-11 06:15 AM   #2 
  - Well, there's a couple of flaws in that logic  customerserviceguy   Sep-28-11 06:25 AM   #3 
  - They need to get the uncertainty out of the way.  dkf   Sep-28-11 06:40 AM   #4 
  - I hear that there is a precedent for this healthcare law, and that Scalia may be obliged to vote  secondwind   Sep-28-11 07:11 AM   #7 
  - There's precedent for any way he wants to vote. That's true in almost all cases.  leveymg   Sep-28-11 07:22 AM   #10 
  - The HCR bill is unique.  former9thward   Sep-28-11 02:02 PM   #17 
  - It all depends, doesn't it?  Owlet   Sep-28-11 07:31 AM   #12 
  - I don't know about that...  GSLevel9   Sep-28-11 11:06 AM   #15 
  - The OTHER more important reason:  bvar22   Sep-28-11 11:40 AM   #16 
 

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