Historic ObamaCare Quote of the Week (With Updates)

"This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. This law looks like it's going to be struck down. All of the predictions including mine that the justices would not have a problem with this law were wrong."

- CNN legal correspondent Jeffrey Toobin, on March 27, 2012.

I hope Toobin learned his lesson on this one, namely, what happens during oral argument in an appellate case is not usually a good indicator of what a court will ultimately decide.

Bottom line here:  The Individual Mandate was a conservative idea cooked up by Republicans, and a conservative court upheld it.  I expect that Mitt Romney will take full credit for ObamaCare any day now.

UPDATE:  And while we're on the topic of historic quotes regarding health care reform, here's what Senator (and legendary Obama hater) Jim DeMint said back in 2007 about RomneyCare:

"Well, that's something that I think we should do for the whole country."

Yes, he actually said that in 2007.  But here is what that piece-of-shit DeMint is saying today:

“I urge every governor to stop implementing the health care exchanges that would help implement the harmful effects of this misguided law. Americans have loudly rejected this federal takeover of health care, and governors should join with the people and reject its implementation.”

DeMint is a flip-flopping, racist, and seditious asshole.

UPDATE II:  This video shows my favorite "reaction" so far to the Supreme Court's health care decision.  Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH), who may be the dumbest person in Congress, originally thought -- thanks to shitty CNN reporting -- that ObamaCare had been ruled unconstitutional. Here is how she reacted when she thought the law had been thrown out:

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Hopefully there is a video out there of how she responded when she learned the truth because I'd love to see it.  I have no doubt the Court's decision ruined her whole day, and that makes me very happy.

And by the way, if you haven't done so already, turn on FoxNews and watch the "fair and balanced" folks on that channel react to the ObamaCare decision.  You'd have to go all the way back to Mussolini's death to find this much sadness amongst the Radical Right Wing.