Wednesday, June 27, 2012

DEMOCRATS BAD BET COMES DUE TOMORROW

Tomorrow, at around 10:30am EDT, the Democrat-left-media complex will launch the most aggressive and sustained attack on the institution of the Supreme Court in the history of our Republic. When the Court throws out at least some portion of ObamaCare tomorrow, President Obama and his partisans on the left and in the media will effectively declare war on the third co-equal branch of government and seek, in every possible way, to undermine the legitimacy of the Court. - Mike Flynn/Breitbart

The discontent on the left is palpable. They bet their dreams of a "permanent majority" on Obama and lost badly. They have encumbered the economy with so much policy uncertainty that the economy is stagnant and will likely give rise to another historic loss for the party in November.

If we've learned anything about Obama in the past three and half years, it's that he doesn't take defeat well. Neither he nor his allies on the left and in the media will be able to admit that they got health care so disastrously wrong. They cannot admit that their signature achievement is existentially unpopular with the voters. So, they, as always, will look for others to blame. It wasn't some vague "partisan" or "corporate" interests that killed ObamaCare. It was defeated by Democrat hubris.

Tomorrow, Obama will kick off his reelection campaign, not against Romney, but against the Supreme Court. Democrats will attack not the GOP House, but judicial review and the very checks and balances that have sustained our Republic for more than 200 years.