question, the answer is no. i hope there s a follow-up. um, okay i was going to switch to obamacare, but i m going to sku ask you, what do you do then? if the answer is no again, looking at the primaries yes you have to get through them to get to the general but be a political strategist for a republican at this point. what do you do? what you do is you don t talk about it you try not to respond to the inevitable attacks coming from the democratic side. the democrats would be crazy not to use that as an issue in the general election. i m sure they will. who s who s one of hillary clinton s best friends, assuming she s the nominee, i m not saying for sure but it looks that way. one of her best friends, governor terry mcauliffe of virginia. he got elected almost entirely on the social issues like gay marriage. he was the first gubernatorial candidate from the south to come out in favor of gay marriage and
act and certainly health care which was every president going back to teddy roosevelt tried to get health care reform through the congress and failed. and now the obamacare, the affordable care act, has been ratified twice by the supreme court and while the republicans i m sure will continue to call for its repeal it will be very difficult to take away something that is as the president put it has been woven into the life of america. so i think this bring this is presidency fuch closer to the history making place that the president wanted aside from the fact that the mere fact of his election was transformative. he s now added some substantial achievements. interestingly, david it was not the liberals in the supreme court who wrote these progressive opinions. chief justice roberts did it for obamacare, justice kennedy on same-sex marriage. any surprise with that?
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and kennedy questioned what the consequences would be. it s almost as congress wrote the law, set it up to blows up. so sema though kennedy obviously was one that was actually coulding the chief justice about upholding obamacare. right. and he did that in 2012. that s why we expect it now. but okay does everybody remember from law school the rule of completeness? you can t take those four or six words if you expand the sentence, you have to look at the entire statue. and what is the entire statue said? it says flexibility, it says all americans. they set up healthcare.gov as the federal exchange so they have that. there s nothing else to look for. this is a lock. so neil, we re hearing it s a lock. i m going to ask you, neil with some trepidation because when i asked you for the outcome last time, nine justices, you said the administration was going to win 47-0. it ended up being a little
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