Posted on 03/21/2011 3:20:12 PM PDT by John Semmens
President Barack Obama issued a stern “hands off” warning to the US Supreme Court on the issue of health care, saying that “this program is too important to allow it to be overturned by an unelected oligarchy.” The warning came in the face of calls for the Court to resolve conflicting rulings on the President’s health care legislation from several lower courts.
Conceding that “normally, it would be incumbent upon the Supreme Court to eventually clarify a situation in which lower courts have ruled differently,” Obama’s Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal nevertheless urged the Court to “back off. Right now public opinion is heavily against this law, but this is before the Administration has been able to implement it—a step that the President feels will turn the tide of public opinion toward a more favorable view. We feel that the Administration deserves a chance to show that the program can work before the Court prejudges it.”
Katyal also suggested that “deferring a ruling would allow the opportunity for some more turnover on the Court, which could prove dispositive if an additional Obama appointee or two could be named.”
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http://azconserv1.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/omb-nominee-explains-obama-strategy-on-debt/
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You wish to drive traffic off-site WHY exactly?
Geez, they just get more and more brazen as the days go by.
I hate satire.
How dare that thug Kenyan!
I hope he has his ASS handed to him by this court!
What stupid reasoning! Its too important? Oligarchy?
IMPEACH this SOB now!
Am I too late to stumble off of my soapbox?
Ok...was fooled.
Impeach him anyway for starting a war without congress’s consent....
I wish this weren’t satire and that Bam-Bam would be dumb enough to pursue this counter-productive strategy. It would piss off Justices Kennedy and Breyer as well.
Well hopefully this will light a fire under the SCOTUS and they rule quickly on making it unconstitutional.
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>You wish to drive traffic off-site WHY exactly?
Perhaps he wishes to have a semi-accurate count of how many readers he has; a {unique IP} hit-counter would do that.
“this program is too important to allow it to be overturned by an unelected oligarchy.”
A presumptuous bastard if there ever was one!
Oh crap, I got taken!
Yeah.
And if he gets a dollar for each of those hits by USING
Free Republic as an advertising platform for his blog then
all is well, right?
A stinking pimp tricking you into blog hits is a good thing, right?
>>Perhaps he wishes to have a semi-accurate count of how many readers he has; a {unique IP} hit-counter would do that.
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>And if he gets a dollar for each of those hits by USING
>Free Republic as an advertising platform for his blog then
>all is well, right?
And all is equally well if he gets nothing at all.
>A stinking pimp tricking you into blog hits is a good thing, right?
But he isn’t really ‘tricking’ at all; he posts an excerpt and marks it as satire... so what?
The Supreme Court has only to follow what the Constitution says and not what one man with a vested interest in protecting what he has spawned and signed, so as to protect his political career. If the Justices are honest in their oath, the health insurance bill will go down.
LOL! Isn’t that in effect what’s happening already? He’s hoping against hope that one of the conservative judges will kick the bucket before he leaves office in Jan. of 2013. ;o)
This HAS happened people:
Team Obama tells Supreme Court to Stay Away From Health Care Challege
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2688945/posts
March 14, 2011
Fox News is the source.
“The Obama administration told the Supreme Court on Monday night it should stay away from a high-profile challenge to the 2010 health care law until after a lower court has had a chance to review the case.”
“President Barack Obama issued a stern “hands off” warning”
...Just like he has to tell Michelle every night.
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