Let us, for a moment, inhabit the fantasy world in which Mitt Romney has been taking up residence since the first time that he claimed that he'd repeal President Obama's health reform law.
Let's say that on the afternoon of January 20, 2013, shortly after a President Willard Mitt Romney is inaugurated, between his big speech and the inauguration ball that evening, he finds time to not only author a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, but that he is also blessed with expedience from the new Congress, where he'd need to have 60 Republican senators (there are only 47 now) rubber-stamp said repeal.
This is what Romney is selling, again today during his remarks after the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, and its individual mandate. First, a succinct evaluation of the news itself, via Adam Serwer of Mother Jones:
The largest expansion of the American welfare state since the Great Society stands, upheld by the most conservative Supreme Court in decades. Yet the decision is not simply a landmark ruling, it is a monumental setback for a conservative movement strategy meant to sabotage, by all available means, the presidency of Barack Obama.
"The Supreme Court just saved Obama's ass," says Adam Winkler, a professor at the UCLA School of Law.
That may indeed be the case -- not simply in the view of history, or
-- insurance companies didn't, and don't want it overturned; will be difficult talking point for Romney
