Murc’s Law As Farce

In response to the Supreme Court’s ominous inaction on abortion rights, young Master Bragman takes some time off from drafting the liberal case for re-electing Donald Trump to offer some of his trademark penetrating insight:

• If history teaches us anything, it’s that nationalizing the health insurance industry will be an easy political lift dependent only on presidential will.
• Legislation preempting state abortion laws would have a zero percent chance of surviving a Republican Supreme Court even if you could pass it.
• Threatening to pack the Court won’t protect Roe. Actually packing the Court might be the least bad option depending on how things break down, but it means that federal protection for reproductive freedom will end with the next Republican government and could not be restored as long as Republicans control any veto point. This seems suboptimal.
• I guess Young Master’s assertions that nobody knows who Donald Trump would nominate to the Supreme Court and his extensive research showing that they might be more liberal than Obama nominee and game theory specialist “Eric Garland” are inoperative.

Wait! It can get even stupider!

Ah, yes, following the lead of Clinton Derangement Grand Poobah Henwood, Y.M. Bragman posits that the minority party could have had a raft of policy victories, but Didn’t. Even. Try. I mean, Hillary Clinton didn’t use the well-known unilateral authority as the junior senator of New York to re-write the U.S. Code, so if course Kirsten Gillibrand won’t either. Also note the “three” policy successes standard, which allows him to yadda-yadda stopping a unified Republican government from repealing the ACA. Hey, Walker will always have access to the best healthcare Long Island has a to offer, so who gives a shit about a bunch of Medicaid recipients anyway? They should be willing to have the contradictions heightened on them anyway!