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Va. attorney general Ken Cuccinelli: Supreme Court ruling isn’t actually so bad
Virginia Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli told The Daily Caller that after reviewing the Supreme Court’s decision on President Barack Obama’s health care law, he’s changed his mind and determined that the ruling actually isn’t so bad for the country in the long-term because it actually curbs federal power.
“If you asked me at the beginning of this process if I could have this ruling, would I take it, I’d have taken it,” Cuccinelli said in a Thursday afternoon phone interview.
The attorney general said he and his staff were gathered in their executive conference room early Thursday when they watched the news that the court largely upheld Obama’s health care law.
Cuccinelli’s first reaction was “negative,” he said, “based primarily on the fact that the law mostly stayed up.” He reacted Thursday morning by putting out a press release saying, “This is a dark day for American liberty.”
But his thoughts on the decision changed, the Republican said, as he dived into the ruling. “Once we got into the opinions, we got considerably more optimistic because our first motivation here is protection of the Constitution and restraint of the federal government. And that was very much achieved in this case.”
How so?
“We got two unique limits that have never been put on the federal government since the New Deal, both on spending power and on the commerce clause power,” Cuccinelli told TheDC.
h/t ChiefIlliniCake
persecutor
June 29th, 2012
After reading the decision, thinking about it, and reading some analyses including some from the left who realize that Roberts rolled them like a drunk sailor, I think we didn’t do too bad.
Now, 61 votes in the Senate is what we need to bury this creature of the undead.
persecutor
June 29th, 2012
PS: Boobie, thanks for the new avatar!
joe
June 29th, 2012
Thank God for the voices of wisdom in Ken Cuccinelli, Pam Bondi, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, and others. Thank you for the work you have done and the work you continue to do.
sorry but...
June 29th, 2012
Mark Levin is best on this and points out that this ruling SETS PRECEDENT, which is very difficult to reverse. Listen to his show from 6/29:
http://www.marklevinshow.com/sectional.asp?id=32930
Precedent is that now the gov can coerce us into doing anything they want under threat of penalty, which they’ll at some point call a “tax”.
This ruling was an abomination and no amount of rationalization will make it different.
Anonymous
June 29th, 2012
I wish these losers would stop trying to polish a turd.
Toaster
June 29th, 2012
As much as I try to be an optimist in the age of 0bama in which I have re-evaluated and even ended some friendships over the dire state of affairs in the US, I can’t go along with spinning this positively. The progs have this country’s freedoms perched on the preverbial cliff with Dear Leader eager to push us Forward.
I agree with Mark Levin’s commentary of last night (posted above by “sorry but…”). I won’t re-type his words, just listen to the show. It’s a fucked up week with the EPA, AZ and 0bamacare rulings.
May God help us all, we have alot of work to do.
Birdie Num Num
June 29th, 2012
Ya know , getting raped ain’t that bad.
It can often change the direction of your life for the better!
And sometime you get a baby out of the deal!
bitterclinger
June 29th, 2012
Yeah, Ken was on Richmond radio this morning talking about instituting health exchanges in VA on a statewide level to thwart one of the rulings.
See, now? Isn’t that swell? We’ll just have state exchanges instead of federal.
Win-win.
JustAl
June 29th, 2012
Nothing but BS GOP elitist spin. The exact same statements could have been made about the commerce clause. . . and the mandate struck down as an unConstitutional tax since it originated in the Senate, not the House.
To say Roberts is some kind of conservative genius is like saying Short was brilliant for lining all the planes up at Hickem field to make the Japs over confident.
MM
June 29th, 2012
This ruling was a fraud and a disaster-there’s just no other way to spin it. ObamaCare is unConstitutional and the contortions that Roberts went though to pull this rabbit out are shocking.
What the hell was he thinking?
Makes me fucking sick.
Mary Jane Anklestraps
June 29th, 2012
All this means nothing unless congress and Romney do something with what got handed to them. It’s Congress who you have to nag and harass to make sure they do.
I wouldn’t worry so much about what any of the other people think. They’re not the ones who I pay my taxes to.
SrWoodchuck
June 29th, 2012
persecutor: Now, 61 votes in the Senate is what we need to bury this creature of the undead.
It is my understanding that since this bill was passed in reconciliation, and is a spending bill; it would only require 51 votes to overturn. That could be 50 Senators + the VP…