Reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold Obamacare subsidies, radio host Hugh Hewitt turned the tables Thursday, bringing Hillary Clinton into the equation and labeling her “the grandmother of Obamacare.”
Hewitt, the author of the new book “The Queen,” gave Clinton the label based on her work on Hillarycare during the Clinton administration. The radio host added that the Clinton campaign won’t be “so happy” over the court’s decision because every Republican candidate in 2016 now gets “a free swing” at her over the law.
HUGH HEWITT: I’m disappointed. I would have been with the dissent, but I think Randy Barnett, a Georgetown Law professor, wrote a great piece over at SCOTUSblog in which he says the chief justice’s position is reasonable, and I think it’s important for conservatives to remember that and not to go on a frenzy of chief justice bashing because there is this principle in constitutional law…in which you try and preserve a statute and you try and do the statute’s work, and the chief buys that.
I’m with Scalia’s dissent. But I think the most important thing is it hurts Hillary. She now has this anchor of Obamacare around her neck, and they cannot blame any of the rising premiums, they cannot blame the enormous deductibles, they cannot blame the lack of doctors on any Republican, and every Republican gets a free swing at Hillary, who after all is the grandmother of Obamacare. Hillarycare came first, Obamacare came second. And she tweeted out her enthusiastic applause for the court’s decision today, but I think in the back room at team Hillary, they’re not so happy about this.