This promises to be a “I win or you lose” week for the President. If the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rules his health care law constitutional, then he has a historical, signature accomplishment as President. Add the Bin Laden
capture, our extraction from Iraq, reduction in Afghanistan, and avoidance of going over a economic cliff to depression (so far), most thinking people will judge that a successful first term (though paraphrasing Stevenson, “thinking people” do not constitute a majority, which is needed by Democrats if not Republicans to win).
If the Supremes say “no”, it deflates the agitated right-wing clamoring for repeal, galvanizes the left and center to vote for he who bringeth (or promises) the much-needed health care reform, and underscores the importance of having a moderate President (i.e. Obama) appoint the next justice. He
loses only an imperfect program about which even lefties are ambivalent. He is left (pun intended) with a clean slate for a better effort during his second term, with the support of a Democratic House that will be elected in a landslide.
Or am I hallucinating? Maybe I need to have my medications adjusted.
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