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Ohio Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) found herself caught in the preliminary confusion over the Supreme Court's ruling on health care reform.
A source passed to NBC News some video, taken by iPhone, of Schmidt standing outside the court as news of the ruling was apparently being passed to her via cell phone.
"Yes! Yes!!! And what else?!" Schmidt says into her cell phone, under the belief that the Supreme Court had struck down the law. (Like most Republicans, Schmidt was an ardent critic of the law.)
Her reaction is a testament to the initial flurry of misinformation surrounding the court's ruling. Even President Obama had thought that his signature legislative achievement had been defeated at the court, before an aide informed him otherwise.
This raw cell phone video shows Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-OH) on the phone outside the Supreme Court this morning apparently celebrating news that the individual mandate had been struck down, something that turned out not to be true.
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She wasn't the only one who was suffering from a serious case of premature ejaculation this morning! lol
Plenty of the wing-nuts around here couldn't... uh hum... contain themselves either!
It's a shame we couldn't see her reaction immediately following the news that the law was upheld.
Would have paid a nickel to see her reaction to that!
She and the rest of the repugnantcan'ts are still probably locked in their closets.
I would have loved to see that also ..
Funny Feisty -- Before I saw your post I was thinking how justice was served in more than one way. The rightwing propaganda machine caused Teapublicans to wet themselves, and then when they learned the truth, they sh!t their pants.
The intention of "spiking the football" is not what I embrace, however, when folks get bit in the arse due to their own making, what can one say other than what comes around goes around? Now, if only this could be a teachable moment...
Discretion is the better part of valor.
One thing for certain, the rightwing can't cry about how a left-leaning SCOTUS ruled in favor of the mandate and against the immigration law -- Or will they....?
I remember after Bush v Gore being asked by rightwingers if I dared to question the SCOTUS. Well, will rightwingers accept this ruling and move on? Not a chance.
Didn't that performance kind of remind you of Meg Ryan in "When Harry Met Sally"?
Feisty Redhead- ROTFLMAO!
Some people would rather cut theier noses off than admit they have a problem with our President's policies even if it is for the greater good.
I'm so happy our President has a big winning smile on his face today. I get the feeling they will be many more winning smiles as these idiotic, trumpeted, moron t-baggers get played like electic violins.
Beverly in Chicago
If you mention Brain Terry's family one more time I'm gonna scream.
Hey, I feel their pain. But, some how I detect ardent racism on the Terry family's part.
Sorry Bev, you can run but you can't hide. That is pretty sad.
Beverly some people would rather just call everyone a racist.
Why do you do that?
Beverly - I'm happy every time I see your President smile. Man, that smile is worth a million $$$.
[Sorry Bev, you can run but you can't hide.]
Gee, big man girl-stalker running loose!
WhiteCollarCriminal, how about you just quit badgering people. As if ANYONE is happy Terry is gone...well, anyone except YOU, right WCCriminal? You're the one making a big-ass deal of this. You should be ashamed using a dead man's legacy like you're doing. Terry wasn't the first in law enforcement to be killed in the line of duty, and sadly, nor will he be the last.
Issa is on a witch hunt and you know it, so stop with the crybaby, holier-than-thou crap.
Grow up already, you idiot. As they say in the Motor City: STFU already
http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-furious-truth/?hpt=hp_t2
God. Who VOTES for that poor woman anyway? She needs some serious help
Same ones who elect Boehner I guess....
Really makes the rest of the nation wonder about Ohio, doesn't it....
What does it take to embarrass you Buckeyes any how?
Really, like Mica, Cornyn, Grassley, Issa and others who actually promote absurd conspiracy theory. The president is plotting to take away second amendment rights so he can pursue none of his efforts to take away guns.
Look at the clowns in the GOP/TP circus (primary) like Donald Trump, Bachmann, Cain -- The Teapublican Party is worse than just off the far-Right cliff, they have brain damage. What's causing it, fracking?
Unfortunately I am embarrassed to admit that I live in the OH 2nd District and I can tell you that she is a near-perfect representative of the vast majority of the kind of people who live here and, for the most part, who live in SW OH. I did not vote for her though in this area there are almost no viable alternatives. The Republican Party so dominates politics here (especially Clermont County where she is from) that once one is chosen as a candidate for office they might as well move their stuff into the appropriate office. In the 2008 every yard sign I put up for Obama was stolen.
Milford,
thank you for your service.
Looking for Ohio to go for Obama in November.
Cincinnati is a right wing cesspool. Dayton, Cleveland and Columbus have their act together and those cities will put Obama over the top in Ohio come November.
I pray your right. I know the Presient should stay,but the tea party are so dumb, that they may get romney in there and if they do, we mit just be ready to have nothing and have to try and live with that that lier. He can't open his mouth with out a lie on every thing he says. I hope people are watching t.v. Watch msnbc they don't lie and they say it so you can under stand. Lets keep putting the thurth out there.
I wonder if she would have such a joyful reaction if the decision she heard was to take away her heath care, or make her instead of the govenment to pay for it. It's the selfish hypocrisy that I find extremely bothersome. They are weird creatures today's republicans!
Andy,
She is a piece of work.
Similar to the tea party Congressman elected in 2010 who was a doctor.
At the freshman orientation in Congress, he was agast that his heathcare coverage provided by the taxpayers would not kick in until after he was sworn in..... he wanted to know what he was to do in the meantime...
You just cannot make this stuff up.
Andy, you are correct. Take the part of Arizona immigration law to require law enforcement to check ANYONE at ANYTIME for proof of citizenship. And they talk about the president being a communist, like haven't these idiots heard of the USSR?
Ahem.. Patriot. The USSR is no more...just in case you hadn't heard.
The problem with Tea baggers is that they think that democratic socialism is like the OLD communist party. That's where their ideas of communism come from. We can thank Raegan and his "evil empire" for that. They of course are in the dark ages.
Great White North Observer -- Yes, I know -- I'm trying to get this through the heads of those in a time warp like Romney -- "Back in the USSR," the place where you have to show your papers everywhere you go. Actually, I wonder if it's still as bad under Putin as during the Cold War days of the Kremlin. Probably.
The point is these folks who don't know history never cease to amaze us with such "slippery slopes." Like warrantless wiretaps, or the Patriot Act and being held without due process of the law, etc., and thinking it applies to other people, to illegals, but somehow not to them.
I'm sure even the Russians would put up with that anymore. They too are moving forward. Of course if Putin thought he could get away with it he might try that.
Typical slow witted Teabagger. The new Republicans are a bunch of far right loons. Imagine acting like this over something that was originally a Republican idea......and Mitt Romney's too. I think Americans are taking notice and are going to throw the old baggers out.
Its all about perceived "wins and "losses".
EPIC FAIL for Ms. Schmidt and her like minded tea party Republicans who want to put the wealthy over Americans and wrap it in the flag or the cross to justify it.
that is some funny stuff. I want to see the moment when she realized she was an idiot.
Not sure she will ever realize that. That explains stupidity. Unfortunately there is no law against stupidity.
I wish President Obama pass an EO against "stupidity"...
Celebrating potential slow, lingering deaths of Americans. That says it all.
EPIC FAIL for Ms. Schmidt and the tea party hostage Republicans who continue to put the interests of the rich ahead of our country and everyday Americans by constantly wrapping it in the flag or the cross to justify their actions.
Fascinating...
I started to read the opinion as authored by Chief Justice Roberts. I may never fully agree with his politics but there is no questioning his reasoning and intellect.
It became immediately clear to me why the initial reaction was that the mandate was struck down. The opinion started by explaining why the mandate was not constitutional as part of the commerce clause. Folks at FOX and CNN must have taken that and ran with it.
Yet, as soon as the Chief Justice finish explaining that it was not constitutional under the commerce clause, he then turned around and determined that it is constitutional under power to tax. He also explained that under past precedent (Hooper v California), regardless of why the administration argued it was constitutional, "every reasonable construction must be resorted to in order to save a statute from unconstitutionality".
Fascinating.
Pure genius on Roberts part. That's what you call mind.....(oops - I won't swear)
I'm really not surprise of the knee-jerked reation of people at Fox News, but CNN? The decision was a sound one in that it was rendered in part by a very ultra conversative judge in Justic Roberts. But when conversatives jump to denounce Roberts' decision, makes you wonder if these conversatives really appreciate the rule of law and logic?
That redhead sure knows all about premature ejaculations. All part of her trade I guess.
Celebration of death and suffering is always premature this side of Hell. Even politics should have a sense of morality.
"Schmidiot"'s conduct is more reflective of a teenager reveling in the vesting of some high school foe than the mannerisms of a mature and competent elected official.
Ready to pounce and now embarrassed. For shame!
Eat @!$%# and die, Jean.....
Military Members, Veterans, Military retirees; note that Romney PROMOTED THE DRAFT during the Viet Nam War,
then skipped out to France for extraordinary length of time when church missionary tours were limited.
When Romney came home, he sided with his dad that the whole Viet Nam War was a scam and that he
was against the war. Promoting the draft, while Americans were dieing, he skipped out, then says he
wishes he could have participated. His whole life has been a lie.
Romney is a COWARD, Lying, Draft Dodger, who promoted someone else to die for him, that is
his way of management. One may want anyone but Obama, but this guy ranks with Jane Fonda and
should not be given anything or elected for anything. A low life human being who has risen to the top
because of his families money.
Once again, a extreme right wing tbag embarrasses our state of Ohio...
Jean Schmidt is the Marge Schott of Congress.