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Conservative anger growing over Obamacare decision
Bryan York.I ran into a prominent conservative member of Congress Friday night just before the huge storms moved through Washington. He was, he said, far angrier on the day after the Supreme Court Obamacare decision than he had been the moment he learned Chief Justice John Roberts had joined the Courts liberal bloc to uphold the individual mandate at the heart of Obamacare. He didnt resort to histrionics or profanity, but he was spitting mad and his anger was growing, not diminishing. A short time later, I saw another conservative lawmaker who said much the same thing. And yet another conservative leader who was in the same frame of mind. At the same time, a backlash was forming in response to analyses by some formidable conservative writers George Will, Charles Krauthammer, and others who argued the Obamacare decision was actually a victory for conservatives because it placed a limit on expansive interpretations of the Constitutions Commerce Clause. Early polling also shows signs of increasing intensity among conservatives and Republicans in the wake of Roberts decision. In the first survey since the ruling, Gallup found that Americans are split down the middle 46 percent to 46 percent on the question of whether they agree or disagree with the Court. But when asked what should happen next, significant differences emerged. Sixty-five percent of Democrats said they want to see the law kept in place and the governments role in health care expanded. But 85 percent of Republicans said they want to see Obamacare repealed either in whole or in part. Its possible that in the wake of the Supreme Courts ruling, a long-running trend in opinion that Republicans dislike Obamacare more than Democrats like it will become more, not less, pronounced. Finally, on Saturday afternoon, I sent out a couple of tweets in which I said: My sense is that conservatives are getting angrier, not calmer, about Roberts opinion. Shocked/confused on Thursday. Angry of Friday. Really angry on Saturday. Unhappiness trending up, not down. The tweets sparked an outpouring of impassioned responses.
Posted by: 2012-07-01 |
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