{"id":14140,"date":"2014-11-17T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=14140"},"modified":"2014-11-17T00:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T08:00:22","slug":"open-thread11172014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/17\/open-thread11172014\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread–11\/17\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m  writing for tomorrow, day 12.  It\u2019s been a terrible day.  I feel like I\u2019ve been ravaged by a bunch of horny sheep.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s took me 2:39 (average 4:51).  To do it, click here<\/a>.  How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n

Religious Agony<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

\"1116-Broncos7-Rams22\"<\/font><\/p>\n

Three key players were injured early in the game.  It was their worst outing this season.<\/font><\/p>\n

Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n

From Daily Kos<\/a> (Hat-Tip JL A): <\/font>The U.S. Supreme Court’s unprecedented, highly politicized and extremely activist<\/a> decision to take on a challenge to the structure of subsidies for people enrolling in Obamacare threatens to fatally undermine the law. But, there is a work around the White House could employ<\/a> that could maintain subsidies for people who’ve purchased insurance on both the state exchanges and the federal exchange. At issue in the King case, which the court is hearing, is whether subsidies can be provided to the people in the three dozen states which are using the federal exchange.<\/p>\n

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The specifics would need to be worked out, but the crux is this: States could continue to use HealthCare.gov as their technical backdrop, but they would be considered state-based exchanges. That would allow the law’s tax subsidies to keep flowing, even if the Supreme Court were to invalidate them on the federal exchange, as the lawsuit’s plaintiffs argue it should…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…Politically, though, putting the onus on Republican governors and legislatures to maintain insurance for well over four million people is a pretty good idea. All of those people with their new insurance\u2014and all of the insurance companies with their new customers\u2014certainly have a stake in this, and could exert a great deal of pressure. This effort by Republicans\u2014and the conservative justices\u2014could end up biting them in the ass.<\/p>\n

I like this. There would be Republican governors who will refuse to do this is the Republican Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD) kick them of their ACA subsidized plans. Don’t get me wrong, I want them to have health care, but they would need to understand that to keep it, they would have to dump their state level Republican Reich.  Then they would avoid the RepubliCare Death Benefit.<\/font><\/p>\n

From Crooks and Liars<\/a>: <\/font>Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Sunday asserted that President Barack Obama had refused to restrict immigration from countries that were being invaded by ISIS Islamic radicals because giving social welfare benefits to terrorists was "exactly the policy" of the United States. <\/p>\n

Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n