Did a 1934 Dinner Party Save Obamacare?

Jonathan Alter, Daily Beast
Could a 1934 Washington dinner party hold the key to Chief Justice John Roberts’ landmark decision on the Affordable Care Act?In late 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had been in office more than a year and decided to move forward on what would become his greatest domestic achievement: Social Security. He assigned his secretary of labor, Frances Perkins, the first woman ever to serve in the Cabinet, to lead the way on designing the program.

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GOP turns focus of health-care fight to Obama’s economic stewardship

The battle over President Obama’s health-care law, settled as a legal matter by the Supreme Court, reopened in the political arena Friday, as Republicans sought to rebound by refocusing the debate on Obama’s stewardship of the economy.

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Roberts Switched Vote to Uphold Health Law

Jan Crawford, CBS News

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The AG's Stonewall Is Contemptible

Mark Hemingway, Weekly Standard
Hot Topics: Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you.Last Wednesday, the White House stunned observers by asserting executive privilege in its refusal to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal that resulted in the death of U.S. border patrol agent Brian Terry. The day before, Barack Obama's presidential campaign sent out a missive attacking GOP super-PACs for not revealing their donors. The message is clear: The president thinks transparency is a good thing if it allows him to bully citizens who give money to his political opponents....

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Health-care ruling motivates Romney supporters

If conservatives needed any more motivation to unseat President Obama, they got it Thursday from the Supreme Court, which provided fresh political opportunities for Mitt Romney even as it handed the president a legal victory.

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Roberts Gives Obama a Second Chance

Frank Rich, New York Magazine
So, the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, after many on both sides predicted otherwise. What's your take?I had the one reaction I didn’t expect to have: I was moved. An America without an independent judiciary is un-American, and this decision offered the first glimmer of hope since Bush v. Gore that this court may be something other than the partisan tool of a single political party. That’s something of a relief (or at least a temporary one) in the aftermath of Scalia’s outburst earlier in the week, when he turned his dissent on the Arizona...

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