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1 posted on 01/28/2010 11:25:19 AM PST by Welshman007
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This supremely arrogant president may just get his wings clipped by SCOTUS. One can hope, anyway.


2 posted on 01/28/2010 11:27:30 AM PST by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger ....)
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"For the first time in U.S. history a sitting President has used the State-of-the-Union speech to slam the U.S. Supreme Court--one of the three branches of the federal government."

What should we expect from someone who has less experience dealing with federal government than a freshman senator half way through his first term?

How can someone who has no experience doing anything but seducing fools be expected to know protocol for actually doing anything?

3 posted on 01/28/2010 11:30:45 AM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (ND LE)
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I know Alito didn’t mean to get picked up on camera, but this is now two in a row and should PROVE to the Republican’s that spontaneous outbursts is good policy during Obama speeches.

You get great media attention and the American people rally


4 posted on 01/28/2010 11:31:05 AM PST by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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He was not the first and will not be the last president to criticize a Supreme Court decision in the State of the Union Address.


5 posted on 01/28/2010 11:40:46 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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Remember, Alito’s wife had to run out of the room because of his attempted Borking and High Tech Lynching by the rats.


7 posted on 01/28/2010 11:44:42 AM PST by dancusa (Political Correctness is a firewall to the truth.)
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Money quote: "But the big stunner is that even the New York Times took Obama to task over his remarks, going as far as saying that Alito was right and Obama was wrong."
8 posted on 01/28/2010 11:46:08 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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Personally, I’d love it if the Supreme Court decided not to attend next year’s SOTU and doesn’t inform the TOTUS. I’d love shot after shot of nine empty chairs.


9 posted on 01/28/2010 11:53:46 AM PST by Right Cal Gal (Ronald Reagan: "our liberal friends....know so much that isn't so...")
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President Wrong on Citizens United Case [Bradley A. Smith]

Tonight the president engaged in demogoguery of the worst kind, when he claimed that last week's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, "open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities."

The president's statement is false.

The Court held that 2 U.S.C. Section 441a, which prohibits all corporate political spending, is unconstitutional. Foreign nationals, specifically defined to include foreign corporations, are prohibiting from making "a contribution or donation of money or ather thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State or local election" under 2 U.S.C. Section 441e, which was not at issue in the case. Foreign corporations are also prohibited, under 2 U.S.C. 441e, from making any contribution or donation to any committee of any political party, and they prohibited from making any "expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication."

This is either blithering ignorance of the law or demagoguery of the worst kind.

— Bradley A. Smith is Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law at Capital University Law School


11 posted on 01/28/2010 12:16:28 PM PST by TigersEye (It's the Marxism, stupid!)
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