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What would it be like if you could sneak one of
my phone/room recorders into the discussion room
where The Supremes do their work? Getting 576 hours worth of
give and take, yes and no, should we or shouldn’t we?

When they get the abortion question before them once again,
that would be a good listen.

If Abomicare passes, eventually the whole matter will be taken
to The Supremes, giving them one more chance to revisit what
a former court did way back in 1973. Amember 1973? The Arab
Oil Embargo, streaking, Secretariat?

Not long after they left Detroit, The Supremes jammed abortion
down our throats — and they all looked like such nice
girls who could sing up a storm, too. After all these years, are
they ready to reconsider and reverse themselves?

I know that no one else sees that as a possibility, but stranger
things have happened. Right now the conservatives enjoy a
5-4 advantage, but they also have 1 other advantage —
they’re motivated to repay the insult Obama recently threw
at them during his State of the Union address in January.

It always helps you do what is right when you can also
return a volley at your opponent. Not that something
like that would be admitted to, but folks is folks, Supremes
or not. Any chinks in the conservative majority that may
have been there afore the State of the Union address
have most likely been shored up by now.

Especially when you look at the recent Supreme’s decision
regarding campaign finance law. Chief Supreme John
Roberts noted that it’s NOT the court’s
duty to uphold all previous rulings, what they call
precedent. If we did that, said Roberts, then we would
still have slavery in this country.

So who knows? Could the Supremes be ready to
reverse Roe v. Wade, and send a big “take that”
in Obama’s direction?

The libs, of course, would say that abortion is not
even a part of Abomicare — and technically,
they’d be right. I’m sure that at least 1 lib has read
all 225,000 pages — hyperbole, not a typo —
and can state for a fact that the word abortion isn’t
there.

But it IS there, even though it isn’t. Most medical
procedures are not listed in any Abomicare bills.
Instead, the language refers to such nebulous phrases
like medical procedures, doctor services, examinations,
words like that.

Appendectomies, gall bladder surgeries, orthopedic
examinations — these aren’t in
the legislation either, not specifically. They don’t need
to be, and neither does abortion.

But when federal law says words like “covered persons are
entitled to have all available medical procedures that their
doctor recommends,” or any other words to that effect,
then abortion is covered, too. Words like that
are what will end up passing the buck to the Supremes,
where the libs have had the advantage for the last 40
years, only now that advantage has switched to the
conservatives.

Plus, there’s 1 other consideration, and that is that no current
Supreme was involved with Roe v. Wade, so that decision
can be reversed without embarrassing any current member.
Throughout our history, that factor has always been very
important in how the court rules.

But would the phone/room recorder capture all
576 hours worth of discussion? You bet. It doesn’t record
when there is nothing to record. It shuts off, and waits until
later, tomorrow, 3 days if it’s a long weekend.

In the best case scenario, Abomicare will be dead
by Easter. But if it isn’t, maybe we’ll see
The Supremes riding to the rescue. Maybe they’ll
use the abortion issue to throw out the whole
mess.

It could happen.                 

The Self Defense Guy

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