And I mean the political climate.
Yesterday’s SCOTUS decision was a bad one in my opinion. It’s already having repercussions beyond the Republican obsession with the ACA. (Apparently at least one employer is already wanting to use the decision to discriminate against gays. This was totally predictable.) Now, I am not going to go into why the decision was wrong headed. I already did a post/essay on how I think you slice that gordian knot or individual religious freedom and public accommodation.
What I want to say is that this is really, I think, going to be bad news for the Republican Party when it comes to Presidential Elections.
Here is a graph I made of the female vote for all presidential elections since Reagan. (I selected 1980 because I think that is the point where a new republican started started to be born.)
Seriously, How is what happened at SCOTUS July 1 going to help that red line get any closer to that blue one? It won’t. Add the hispanic votes walking out the door and the youth vote giving the conservative party the finger and I think things look nasty for the Republicans in presidential elections.
I found this link described as “troll of the United States”
https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/484722240684965888
The description is too damned true.
And now for something completely off topic
Xanti-misfits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyvR-lQwNzM
vs Rapture-Palooza Locust!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2t8t8J7gc0
Wait? What? You mean the Hobby Lobby case? That case will drive the Women’s Vote? That’s a hell of a stretch. But then many Democrats still think the ACA is a political winner, excepting of course those Democratic Senators who actually have to face the consequences of ACA during reelection this year! For some reason those Senators are running as fast as they can from Obamacare.
As for the actual case itself, it is much more about RFRA (passed by an overwhelming bi-partisan vote) than the ACA (passed by purely partisan shenanigans). Even Tribe is saying wait-a-minute-now to left-wing doomsayers…
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_breakfast_table/features/2014/scotus_roundup/supreme_court_hobby_lobby_decision_how_big_is_its_scope.html
Meanwhile the Democrats are trying to find a way to nullify the 1st Amendment. Oh that pesky freedom of speech about politics!
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/06/democrats-struggle-with-how-to-ban-free-speech.php
With of course, California Democrats blazing the path on calling for a constitutional convention to revise the 1st Amendment.
http://article.wn.com/view/2014/06/24/California_Lawmakers_Back_Amendment_Overturning_Citizens_Uni/
It would yield a one party system, not here in the USA. If the Republicans – or the Democrats for that matter – find that they have a base that is dragging them out of the running the base will be cut away. It has happened before, but it’s not a quick or easy process,
This honestly deeply worries me. I do not want a one party system. I think we do better when both sides have to compromise – even my side. The more voices that can be included, in general, the better the laws. If the Republican Party allows its lunatic fringe to become the dominant voice, then I could see the possibility that we will become one party and that is really, really scary. They have got to wake up and realize that their base is not going to vote for the Democrats so they really don’t need to give them that many concessions. (Reagan gave them only rhetoric – NO legislation.)