Ok, they aren't saying, which, kind of juxtaposes with my theory about what they're plan: there is no plan. I mean the plan was simply to meet and claim to be talking about a 'fix' to Obamacare. What they actually talked about doesn't matter.
"Republicans met privately on Thursday to discuss how they'll respond if the Supreme Court strips health insurance subsidies from millions of Americans in a case about the validity of Obamacare premium tax credits in three-dozen states."
"The discussion of the case King v. Burwell — set to be decided by the end of June — loomed large in a strategy meeting on health care held at a resort hotel here in the afternoon. Republicans didn't come away with a plan."
"The discussion centered on the best strategy in context of the upcoming King v. BurwellSupreme Court case ... and moving quickly to show the country Republicans have a patient-centered response to King v. Burwell," an aide in the room, who wasn't authorized to speak on the record, said after the meeting."
"The discussion was led by House Ways & Means Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) and House Energy & Commerce Chair Fred Upton (R-MI), the aide said."
"We're obviously doing contingency planning for King v. Burwell," Ryan told reporters after the meeting. "It would be wrong not to. ... That's something that is an ongoing conversation and we're doing all of our diligence on that."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-republicans-supreme-court-obamacare-king-burwell
Note the absolute coyness of the GOP posture. They are just so demur-they wont give anyone the slightest hint about what specifically they might consider doing. This may be not a feature but a bug. It's like Greg Sargent always says. They might just be primping for Chief Justice John Roberts who is going to be the key whether this latest bid to gut ACA is successful or not.
He will be reluctant like last time to gut the entire law-as he's worried about his Court's legacy. He doesn't want people to look at the SJC as just a third House of the GOP Congress. Sargent suggests that he might be willing to rule against Obamacare here if he can feel assured that something will be done to 'fix the law' and it seems to me that this is the basis of the GOP's Kabuki tonight. They just are trying to assure Roberts they will fix it; even though, like when Roberts' Court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act, they won't and have no intention of doing so.
"Republicans met privately on Thursday to discuss how they'll respond if the Supreme Court strips health insurance subsidies from millions of Americans in a case about the validity of Obamacare premium tax credits in three-dozen states."
"The discussion of the case King v. Burwell — set to be decided by the end of June — loomed large in a strategy meeting on health care held at a resort hotel here in the afternoon. Republicans didn't come away with a plan."
"The discussion centered on the best strategy in context of the upcoming King v. BurwellSupreme Court case ... and moving quickly to show the country Republicans have a patient-centered response to King v. Burwell," an aide in the room, who wasn't authorized to speak on the record, said after the meeting."
"The discussion was led by House Ways & Means Chair Paul Ryan (R-WI) and House Energy & Commerce Chair Fred Upton (R-MI), the aide said."
"We're obviously doing contingency planning for King v. Burwell," Ryan told reporters after the meeting. "It would be wrong not to. ... That's something that is an ongoing conversation and we're doing all of our diligence on that."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-republicans-supreme-court-obamacare-king-burwell
Note the absolute coyness of the GOP posture. They are just so demur-they wont give anyone the slightest hint about what specifically they might consider doing. This may be not a feature but a bug. It's like Greg Sargent always says. They might just be primping for Chief Justice John Roberts who is going to be the key whether this latest bid to gut ACA is successful or not.
He will be reluctant like last time to gut the entire law-as he's worried about his Court's legacy. He doesn't want people to look at the SJC as just a third House of the GOP Congress. Sargent suggests that he might be willing to rule against Obamacare here if he can feel assured that something will be done to 'fix the law' and it seems to me that this is the basis of the GOP's Kabuki tonight. They just are trying to assure Roberts they will fix it; even though, like when Roberts' Court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act, they won't and have no intention of doing so.
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