Fox’s Baier Calls ObamaCare Ruling ‘A Bit Of A Win For Republicans’

Fox’s Bret Baier acknowledged that today’s 6-3 Supreme Court decision upholding the ObamaCare subsidies is “a big win” for the Obama administration. But leave it to Fox to hype a silver lining for Republicans.

Shortly after the ruling came down, Baier appeared on Fox News' America's Newsroom and suggested to the GOP faithful, also known as Fox News viewers, that the ruling just makes it easier to get rid of ObamaCare altogether.

BAIER: This is a big win for the administration… Now you could look politically that even in the short term this is a bit of a win for Republicans because they won’t have to deal with the politics and sticky politics of not having to provide a patch from here to there if you had six and a half million people losing their insurance. …So that battle is over but the battle to still repeal and replace ObamaCare will continue and it will continue in earnest.

Host Martha MacCallum made sure to suggest that Chief Justice Roberts, who wrote today’s decision, has illegitimately supported the law twice. The first time, she gratuitously noted, he ruled that “the fine” (i.e. individual mandate) was a tax “even though the president and the administration had said exactly the opposite.”

But Baier continued focusing on the good news for repealing and replacing. “Perhaps, if you’re on the Republican side,” he said – hypothetically speaking, I’m sure - the ruling is “a good thing in the politics of being able to sell a repeal and replace plan on the (2016) campaign trail.” He added, “A lot of these states, obviously, are reporting problems with subsides going up and some issues about access. There are many people who talk positively, obviously, about ObamaCare and all the people that are re-insured. But, you know we hear these stories all the day about the troubles.”

MacCallum chimed in, “And it maintains the same posture essentially as it had before - that there are those who are for it, and those who are against. The law does not seem to be changing in any dramatic way, at least as a result of the Court.”

No, no changes at all – except that the ruling virtually assures ObamaCare will remain in place after Obama leaves office in 2017.

Watch it below, from today’s America’s Newsroom.

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commented 2015-06-26 01:11:47 -0400 · Flag

Nancy Lee,

I don’t get the impression you meant your comment as constructive criticism but I do appreciate the correction. My computer sometimes doesn’t type a letter even after I tap it on the keyboard and sometimes my fingers get away from me.

commented 2015-06-25 19:11:07 -0400 · Flag

Wow… how often does “fair, balanced, and unafraid” Bret Baier sound like one of those Daily Kos reading liberals? He’s being a bit of a Daily Kos parrot here. You know, the narrative the Republicans finally realized they overreached on killing Obamacare and have no possible clue on what to do with the millions who have health insurance for the first time they’re generally pleased with.

Heck, all the Republicans want is some red meat to toss their ever-angry mob of voters who hate everything government unless they carry a gun as part of their job duties. Then it’s all hugs, kisses, and wave the flag.

So, yeah, the Republicans will pound the fossilized, fact-free horse of how Obamacare is all bad – which is all Fox News megaphones – throughout the election cycle. It worked so well for Romney, eh? But wait… ;^)

The Republicans remind me of a dog I had when I was a kid. It’d chase squirrels with a crazy zeal but I always knew it would be shocked s**tless if he ever caught said squirrel and wouldn’t know what to do with it. ;^)

commented 2015-06-25 18:21:48 -0400 · Flag

For Faux sNooze, when all else fails, spin a victory for President Obama into a victory for the GOP . . .

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commented 2015-06-25 17:06:05 -0400 · Flag

Is the word “ruling” or “ruing?” You also called Charleston Charlotte in a post two days ago.

commented 2015-06-25 15:29:56 -0400 · Flag

@marco. Let’s all root that Ms. Lindsey Graham, America’s favorite drag queen, is the GOPiggy Presidential nominee. Let him/her run against Hillary Clinton on a promise to repeal Obamacare. We will have a Democrat President, Senate and House in 2017.

commented 2015-06-25 12:55:53 -0400 · Flag

What is wrong with these people. They are blaming their conservative John Roberts for agreeing with the law’s intent. Lindsey Graham just said the elected republican will repeal and replace it with something better. They are talking hard and fast, the truth is they don’t have sh** (squat). Judas Priest and God Almighty, they’re putting on the show of a lifetime. Lightheartedly laughing, finding reasons why ACA is illegal. You lost already.

commented 2015-06-25 12:10:41 -0400 · Flag

Baier is correct in the sense it gives the right a chance to bash away and try to contend they will change the law if elected president. But calling it a “bit of a win” is a helluva stretch because Obamacare is still the law of the land. And the longer it stays so, the more entrenched it will get. He simply said what the Fox audience wanted to hear — something positive out of what was otherwise a crushing defeat.

Greta Van Sustern, no fan of this president, refused to follow suit because she seen the positive effects of the law with a family member and, as a result, was rather quickly shushed off the air.

NewsHounds posted about Fox’s Baier Calls ObamaCare Ruling ‘A Bit Of A Win For Republicans’ on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2015-06-25 11:45:33 -0400

Baier pretends the ruling just makes it easier for Republicans to get rid of ObamaCare altogether.