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Though I understand it's quite the popular swingin' hot spot with <strike>conservative teens</strike> the conservative teen.

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I spell it Deadfuckhead.

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I'll still say it doesn't matter. Either the SCROTUS will uphold it (which would be correct based on the last 60 or 70 years of precedent, in my admittedly not-bar-association-approved view); or it will reject it, in which case the Democratic Party -- unless they are even more than usually slow to react -- will make this a central point of their 2012 campaign ("See what happens with Republicans on the Supreme Court?"). This should activate even those who don't like the ACA because it doesn't go far enough.

Okay, I'm an optimist.

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Thanks. Saved me a reply.

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And, of course, the evil that Breibart did lives after him (cf., everything).

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Seriously, the most appropriate comment of the day.

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Sharts and Darts!

I think Butt Karaoke ought to be a real thing though.

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Plenty of court watchers were predicting a 6-3 vote to uphold with Roberts joining (or maybe even authoring) the majority threading a needle explaining how the ability to mandate <em>only</em> applies to healthcare.

The reason being that (a) unlike Alito and Thomas, Roberts is actually slightly bothered that chunks of the populace think his obvious right-wing activist shilling is political, and (b) he wants to keep his powder dry to really upset the apple cart with more far-reaching abandonments of long-standing precedent later in the term.

Kennedy actually seemed far more hostile to the government's arguments than Roberts did in the transcript. I was annoyed that the Solicitor General failed to think of a useful answer to Kennedy's challenge "why can't the government force you to buy a cell phone? You might need one after a car accident"; obvious answer: "you can use a govt-provided roadside phone, or you can borrow someone else's (e.g. mom's) cell for the trip, or you can flag down another driver and have them call for help, or a local resident might call for you - plenty of alternatives to using a cell; but you can't borrow someone else's health insurance to cover a kidney transplant"; Gen. Verrilli's answer was basically "um uh well you can't because uhm it's different" - unconvincing.

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That's what happens when your headband is too tight.

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That's it! I'm sinning nonstop from here on in, to see who's next...

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He was fortunate to die at a young age, instead of living a long and pointless life and ending up as a 'California' version of Patrick Buchanan. And Che probably wouldn't have aged well either.

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So how does that distinguish it from the original?

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That's not easy to fap to.

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In honor of their fallen hero, they should all commit racist acts of libel and get sued.

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I'll speculate that the protester with that county fair rendition of Brietfart has probably used Planned Parenthood at least once.

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