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Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.
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He did the most Democratic thing ever, which was to agree with a meaningless dissent and then tell us that as President he didn't have the power or legitimacy to do anything about it and that it was up to us.
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Just think: if we kept voting, we could elect a whole string of Democratic Presidents all of whom would tell us that they can't do anything and that it was up to us to elect another Democratic President who would also not be able to do anything.
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I was only able to retire early because of the ACA I am looking forward to the $2K annual out of pocket limit on Medicare drugs starting next January Medicare btw was LBJ I remember him He did mess up on a Supreme Court appointment Fortas, who resigned That has had bad effects for 55 years
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ACA saved my brother’s life.
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ACA keeps my medicine $5k a month. Thanks Obama!
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ACA does not set prices for medications.
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(And Presidents don’t write the laws.)
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The guy who ran on a public option couldn't do anything about the price of medicine? Boy. Trump is a dictator but democrats are feckless.
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Presidents at that time were not kings. And now thanks to SCOTUS, the agencies have been stripped of what independent power they had to try to fix things. So now Congress definitely has to do that work.
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(Remember that many of Obama’s executive orders and his ability to do recess appointments during brief recesses were overturned by the courts.)