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Founding Ideals
3/29/2012
Supreme Court – 03.28.12
An exchange between Justice Kagan and Lead Plaintiff Attorney Clement…
…Kagan pressed further with a hypothetical asking Clement if he’d accept a lucrative job. He said it would depend on where that money came from.
“Wow! Wow!” Kagan exclaimed in wonderment. “I’m offering you $10 million a year to come work for me and you are saying this is anything but a great choice?”
Clement sharply replied, “Sure, if I told you, actually it came from my own bank account.”
Read the whole thing at Founding Ideals
H/T Conservative Commune’s must-read article Changing the Subject Stupidly
Related: How Paul Clement Won the Supreme Court’s Oral Arguments on Obamacare
…While it’s undoubtedly premature to say that Obamacare is doomed, as some are now claiming, Tuesday’s hearing suggests that Clement has at least found a plausible path to victory…
Update: WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Health Care Disaster And The Miseries Of The Blue Model.
“This is a horrible piece of legislation — as misbegotten and useless to its friends as it is menacing to its enemies. The question is: why? Why did the blues write such a bad law? Why, given a once in a lifetime chance to pass a program that Dems have longed to achieve ever since the New Deal, did they craft a sloppy mess that nobody understands and few admire, and then leave their law so unnecessarily vulnerable to constitutional challenge? The answers tell us much about why blue progressive thinking is losing its hold on the body politic — and why blue methods generally aren’t working as well as they used to.”
via Instapundit
