Some headline reactions to yesterday's SCOTUS decisions

As analysis of yesterday's Supreme Court decision proceeds, we're getting both a sense of alarm and an awareness of how broad these decisions may actually be.   It depends on what further court decisions use these narrow decisions as precedent -- either to extend the sweep or to keep it narrow.

But, for now, the left is expressing itself in some dramatic -- and possible quite true -- headlines:

1.  From a law professor at UCLA:   "Corporations are people, and they have more rights than you."

2.  Ryan Grimm, Huffington Post political writer:  "8 other laws that could be ignored now that Christians get to pick and choose."

3.  MSNBC's Rachel Maddow:  "Maddow Issues Dark Warning About Supreme Court."

4.  U.S. News:  "After Hobby Lobby, These 82 Corporations Could Drop Birth Control Coverage."

5.  Cecile Richards, CEO of Planned Parenthood:   "Corporations have more rights than women."

6.  Huffington Post:  "Chamber of Commerce Emerges as Big Supreme Court Winner."

Let's hope that there is more than a little hype in these reactions.   But we cannot afford to rely on that.   There is at least a 50/50 chance Republicans will take control of the Senate.   Then any nominees President Obama makes to the court will have a hard time getting confirmation.

It is vital not only to elect a Democratic president in 2016 but to keep control of the Senate in 2014.

Ralph