Posted on 04/02/2012 11:36:00 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
Edited on 04/02/2012 12:58:41 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
**I think Obama, in his post-summit (Mexico, US, Canada) TV appearance, just told the US Supreme Court how to vote on the Obamacare issue.**
Read more at: Fox NewsPresident 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.
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.
He would find that difficult to understand, since in his mind, the Constitution is just an old relic.
Regarding the hits on me ... "Breaking News" takes more time to make it to the newswires than it takes Freepers to "Break" it.
A thank you also to Jim Robinson for giving us FreeRepublic.
Good post. I “DEEM” it a success but Harry Reid can’t agree!
“Strong majority”??????
They had to resort to FLAT OUT BRIBING Senators to get the votes!!
This is good news! He probably has information they voted against it.
A strong majority of congress??? Only Dems voted for it and they got blown away in the next election.
If she did, doesn’t that go against some sort of protocol set forth by the Supreme Court, and if so, can she get the boot for breaching that protocol? Gawd I hope so......
If she did, doesn’t that go against some sort of protocol set forth by the Supreme Court, and if so, can she get the boot for breaching that protocol? Gawd I hope so......
*** “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. ***
Breathtakingly stupid, and dishonest.
Has he not studied the balance of powers and how it was intended for the SCOTUS to stop over reach by Congress? (Of course he has).
A strong majority? They backdoored this monstrosity by the slimmest of margins.
Pretty much sums up O'Bozo completely, along with...
FUBO
It didn't pass the Democrat controlled House. It was never voted on.
Eventually, through some obscure rule and perhaps rule bending, Peelousy "deemed" it to have passed the House.
He’s a little racist thug holding our country hostage.
It is time for the adults to stand up to him because he is dangerous to the Republic (and world) no matter how much everyone yeilds to his dictates.
The GOP is so weak, it is dangerous.
Reconciliation...
Yes. 9/2009
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/59763-reid-gives-gop-direct-warning-on-healthcare
No. 11/209
Yes. 3/2010
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/03/11/us-usa-healthcare-reid-idUSTRE62A4LX20100311
He is not the first to attack the legitimacy of the Court. Long before FDR tried to pack the Court, President Andrew Jackson is supposed to have said: “John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!”.
Jackson, the first Democrat according to most, relocated the Cherokee in spite of the Marshall Court decisions. A populist demagogue screwing landowners out of their property. Fitting for the first Democrat and a worthy role model for Obama.
The decision has been made and I’m sure Obama knows.
hussein will have a nervous breakdown if 0-care totally goes down. Any EOs would be a joke. SCOTUS has no army, true, but if hussein tries to assume dictatorial powers, he will have no army either.
... and very few of them even read the behemoth ... they had to pass it to see what was in it!
I guess they don’t teach American civics at Indonesian Islamic madrassas.
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