To understand what is going on with Obamacare and the Supreme Court you need to shave the rhetoric with Occam’s Razor. We know that the SCOTUS justices debate the case within days after the oral arguments. We also know that two of the justices are Obama appointees, Sotomayor and Kagan. Kagan even represented Obama as a “client” in the birth certificate matter.

Even though the final opinions have not been released, or even drafted, the decision was made shortly after oral arguments. Does anyone think that the President does NOT know how the justices voted?

Given this fact, combined with the President’s penchant for petulance and leaping before he looks, his comments about how it would be an “unprecedented, extraordinary step” for “an unelected group of people [to] somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law,” even though that is their job, start to make rational sense.

If the President knew that the vote was in his favor then he would be foolish to bully the court. However, if the President knew they had ruled against him, then trying to discredit the court would be consistent with his Alinsky-Chicago politics modus operandi we have come to expect.

Obama’s short temper is his tell. On hearing the news that Obamacare is in trouble, he reflexively lashed out at the court. A simple explanation that fits the facts at hand.

BRENT REGAN

Coeur d’Alene