I woke up this morning, noticed it was 8:15 and found myself wondering if the Supreme Court had just announced one of its looming important decisions…say, the one on Same-Sex Marriage or the one on Obamacare. I put on CNN and they were talking about the Confederate Flag so I thought, "I guess not." But they're coming…
I think Obamacare has done an awful lot of good — certainly more than doing nothing or any alternative that's been discussed in vague terms — and I expect it can be made even better once the resistance and the sabotage die down. So I'd like to see them rule that one little bit of clumsy wording is no reason to muck with it. One Obamacare-favoring friend of mine is praying for it to be damaged because, he says, that will rebound in the worst way against Republicans…and a number of Republican officials are acting all scared of that, too. Yeah, but if the Supremes rule agin' it, a lot of people will suffer so right there's a good reason to hope the Justices let it continue as is.
You probably know how I stand on the Same-Sex Wedlock issue. If the decision legalizes Gay Marriage across the land, I hope the outraged would pause and take a look at the cases that have actually been presented to try and block it. I've read a bunch of them and they're pretty lame. As Nathaniel Frank notes, the argument against Same-Sex Marriages that was presented to the Supreme Court was pretty feeble. In all of these, the person arguing against letting members of the same sex wed has trouble explaining how allowing that would in any way harm the institution of straight marriage…and without that, they don't have much of a case.
Unlike Mr. Frank, I am not confident as to how the Supreme Court will rule. The argument to stop the vote count and declare George W. Bush president in 2000 was pretty feeble but look how that turned out…and even the feeblest arguments usually persuade at least a few Justices. But any morning now, we'll know. The Supreme Court has a lot of decisions to release and they're adding dates to the calendar when they might do this. I'll probably wake up at 8:15 on every one of them.