Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

Boy, you really are being hopeful and optimistic today, Bucco. I wish I could share your optimism.

All I can say is that the GOP candidates need to attract a lot of those voters who they might not have "gotten" in prior elections. According to this morning's polls, Romney is as much as 30 points behind Obama among women, worse than that among Hispanics, and about 10-15 points down among other minorities. He's even polling worse than Obama among white, working class males. Continuing to fire away on repealing ObamaCare doesn't seem to be a strategy that will attract back voters from those segments that he really needs.

As far as what the true majority feels about ObamaCare, I really wonder whether most people have really thought through the impact that a repeal of the law would have, and the dismal probability that Congress would be inclined to even consider more healthcare legislation anytime soon. I think you posted a quote from Mitch McConnell, who said basically that a little "work around the edges" is about all that can be expected.

I don't know what to expect from the Court. Will they be activist and "make law" from the bench? Or will they rule solely on the constitutionality of the issue? They are clearly competent to rule on constitutional questions. I'm not as confident that they have the skill, experience or time to make competent rulings on the complexities of a 2,700 page healthcare law that took Congress 14 months to put together.

To some extent, I have to chuckle. In prior judicial confirmation hearings, it's been the Republican members of the judiciary committee and the Senate who have railed against candidates put up by liberal presidents, asserting that they would be activists and make law from the bench. Now, that's exactly what those same politicians are hoping for from the conservative justices.

I guess we'll see, first on the outcome of the Court proceedings, then on the outcome of the fall general election.