{"id":58,"date":"2012-06-28T12:30:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T18:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/?p=7482"},"modified":"2012-06-28T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T18:30:36","slug":"could-the-health-care-ruling-reinvigorate-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/publicreligion\/2012\/06\/could-the-health-care-ruling-reinvigorate-the-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the Health Care Ruling Reinvigorate the Tea Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-7483\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Could the Health Care Ruling Reinvigorate the Tea Party?\" src=\"https:\/\/publicreligion.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Health-care2-1024x632.png\" alt=\"Health care2 1024x632 Could the Health Care Ruling Reinvigorate the Tea Party?\" width=\"413\" height=\"254\"><\/p>\n<p>Opposition to President Obama\u2019s health care reform law has been the heart and soul of many Tea Party activities since the law\u2019s passage in 2010, so it\u2019s unsurprising to see that so many Tea Party members favor action by the Supreme Court to overturn the law. After all, as this graph shows, no group was more supportive of the Supreme Court overturning the health care law than members of the Tea Party. But now that Obamacare has been left mostly intact, could opposition to health care reform galvanize the Tea Party, which hasn\u2019t been as much of a force in 2012, to spring back into action? Some perspectives from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/29\/us\/politics\/republicans-press-on-with-health-law-challenge.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">New York Times<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/justice-thomas-dissent-on-obamacare-healthcare-reform-2012-6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Business Insider<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.cbn.com\/thebrodyfile\/archive\/2012\/06\/28\/supreme-court-healthcare-ruling-the-worst-day-of-president-obamas.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CBN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=nooLpWvIgOE:ohwbeo7mizM:yIl2AUoC8zA\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?a=nooLpWvIgOE:ohwbeo7mizM:qj6IDK7rITs\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/PublicReligionResearchInstitute\/~4\/nooLpWvIgOE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition to President Obama&#8217;s health care reform law has been the heart and soul of many Tea Party activities since the law&#8217;s passage in 2010, so it&#8217;s unsurprising to see that so many Tea Party members favor action by the Supreme Court to overturn the law. After all, as this graph shows, no group was more supportive of the Supreme Court overturning the health care law than members of the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/publicreligion.org\/2012\/06\/could-the-health-care-ruling-reinvigorate-the-tea-party\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1097,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,17,11,38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election","category-barack-obama","category-mitt-romney","category-politics-government","category-tea-party","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Could the Health Care Ruling Reinvigorate the Tea Party?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Opposition to President Obama&#8217;s health care reform law has been the heart and soul of many Tea Party activities since the law&#8217;s passage in 2010, so it&#8217;s unsurprising to see that so many Tea Party members favor action by the Supreme Court to overturn the law. 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