"The Affordable Care Act is an important first step in curbing discriminatory insurance company practices and increasing access to health care, but more needs to be done to bring down costs," Tim Kaine, the Democratic nominee for the Virginia U.S. Senate race, said in a statement released Thursday. (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/republicans-claim-supreme-court-ruling-boost-downballot-races-182224798.html)
Tim Kaine. Didn't this guy already lose one election because of his ties to President Obama?
Oh, that's right. . . the 2009 Virginia governor's race, where Kaine the incumbent came up short, the first in a line of early casualties falling under the ax of Obama's repudiation by the American voters. Virginia flipped Democratic in 2009, then returned to reality the next year to put an unexpectedly short end to the Progressive policies of the most liberal president of modern times.
Kaine's myopic and amnesiac enthusiam will not carry the Virginia senator's race in 2012, either.
Whether the United States Supreme Court struck down, upheld, or dissented in part to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the highest court in the land has handed another winning issue to the Romney camp while hindering the already self-hindered incumbents dwindling reelection hopes.
Writing for the slim majority, Chief Justice Roberts surprised conservatives and liberals in arguing that the individual mandate, the core element of Obama's officious legislation, is constitutional, yet not based on a broad interpretation of the commerce clause, but rather the mandate has a proper legal basis in Congress' power to tax.
Of course, President Obama touted over and over — at least in 70 plus speeches, that his overhaul of health care would not be a tax. The august deliberations of the court have further undermined ObamaCare as a selling point for the President, now that he will have to back-peddle even more against the rousing rhetoric from his first year in office.
Romney took in over $1 million dollars in campaign donations within an hour after the Supreme Court delivered its ruling. This legislation remains vastly unpopular throughout the country. No matter how the mainstream media may present or spin this outcome, President Obama cannot proclaim this law an achievement for his reelection, while Romney can not only hammer the unpopularity of the law, but now dress it up in the Chief Justice's own words as a "tax", the dreaded-three letter word that Obama was trying to avoid using over the year and a half of lobbying and politicking to ram that gross legislation through Congress.