Tuesday - April 03, 2012

simply un-obama-lievable

Obama warns ‘unelected’ Supreme Court against striking down health law

President Obama, employing his strongest language to date on the Supreme Court review of the federal health care overhaul, cautioned the court Monday against overturning the law—while repeatedly saying he’s “confident” it will be upheld.

The president spoke at length about the case at a joint press conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada. The president, adopting what he described as the language of conservatives who fret about judicial activism, questioned how an “unelected group of people” could overturn a law approved by Congress.

“I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,” Obama said.

Wow. He just oozes contemptuous stupid from every single pore. Don’t you just love how he implies that shooting down his ramrodded law, crammed down the throats of the American public against our wishes and without our votes, would be tyrannical? Oh, and I’ll get to the “democratically elected” part in the next post, since YET AGAIN it’s turned up that the Dems have been caught red handed rigging the ballots back in 2008.

Unelected judges overturning a law passed by an elected legislature ... gosh, that’s just so wrong. Um, wait. Um, no. Asshat. That’s what the damn Supreme Court is FOR. It’s what their job is. Now, then, and since forever. Did this Indonesian pretender even attend one of these law classes? Did he pass any of the exams, or just mark them “present”? My head is spinning. What nerve. What blatant stupidity. What a douche.

The Supreme Court spent three days hearing arguments last week in four separate challenges to the health care law, which stands as the president’s signature domestic policy accomplishment. A central challenge was over the individual mandate—the requirement that Americans buy health insurance. Critics say the mandate is unconstitutional, and that the federal government cannot force people into the insurance marketplace.

Obama on Monday said that without such a mandate, the law would not have a mechanism to ensure those with preexisting conditions get health care.

“I’m confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld,” Obama said, describing the law as “constitutional.”

Republican lawmakers slammed the president for his Supreme Court comments. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, accused the president of misrepresenting the implications of a ruling against the law.

“It must be nice living in a fantasy world where every law you like is constitutional and every Supreme Court decision you don’t is ‘activist,’” he said in a statement. “Many of us have been arguing for nearly three years that the federal government does not have the power to dictate individuals’ purchasing decisions. After a national debate on the subject, more than two-thirds of Americans agree that the Obamacare insurance mandate is unconstitutional.”

Nice word Senator Hatch, but like Ron Paul said of Newt Gingrich, you haven’t gone far enough. The entire mandate is based on an extraordinary bending of the already overly bent reed called “the power to regulate interstate commerce”. And the ENTIRE problem of unchecked, unlimited, overbearing federal government is based on that one single decision back in 1937 when Obama’s predecessor, his mentor, his role model, and the other Communist president, FDR, strong armed the Supreme Court by threatening to pack it with another half dozen justices that would toady to him. Because they were old, and thus slow witted, so he was going to help them. Seriously, that was FDR’s publicly stated reasoning. And two justices capitulated, and it’s been downhill ever since. All that “regulate interstate commerce” ever meant was to normalize it. To keep it tuned, and running evenly. Like a clock. Regulated.  Look it up, Mr. Scholar. Read the words of the founding fathers, The Federalist Papers, and the Congressional Minutes up to that point in time.

But no. To Obama, this law is constitutional because he says it is. And any decision other than that ... well, let’s see how that Joe The Plumber tar brush works on Scalia. Or we could try to Palinize Roberts. Hey, let’s get Spike Lee to Tweet Kennedy’s home address and the NBPP to put a bounty out on him.

PS - Notice that a certain Ivory Tower justice has NOT recused herself from sitting in judgment on legislation that she had a significant hand in creating. Solicitor General at the time, no? Ethics much? ¡Cállate, no es nada!

UPDATE: under the overleaf, a take of a far darker geometry:

Posted by Drew458     on 04/03/2012 at 07:08 AM   
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