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Obama takes a shot at Supreme Court over healthcare (Obama's trying to intimidate the SCOTUS)
reuters ^ | 4/2/2012 | Jeff Mason

Posted on 04/02/2012 2:41:10 PM PDT by tobyhill

President Barack Obama took an opening shot at conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, warning that a rejection of his sweeping healthcare law would be an act of "judicial activism" that Republicans say they abhor.

Obama, a Democrat, had not commented publicly on the Supreme Court's deliberations since it heard arguments for and against the healthcare law last week.

Known as the "Affordable Care Act" or "Obamacare," the measure to expand health insurance for millions of Americans is considered Obama's signature domestic policy achievement.

A rejection by the court would be a big blow to Obama going into the November 6 presidential election.

Republican presidential candidates, who are vying to take on Obama in November elections, have promised to repeal the law if one of them wins the White House.

Obama's advisers say they have not prepared contingency plans if the measure fails. But the president -- who expressed confidence that the court would uphold the law -- made clear how he would address it on the campaign trail if the court strikes down the law.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; bullyinchief; deathpanels; dictatorinchief; kagan; narcissistinchief; obamacare; obamapoleon; obameltdown; scotus; separationofpowers; tyrantinchief; waronscotus; zerocare
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To: Windflier
I was the incorrect one, not P.O.E.
I had read that. He/She was responding to me.
41 posted on 04/02/2012 3:31:37 PM PDT by allmost
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To: tobyhill

This guy should have been impeached two years ago.


42 posted on 04/02/2012 3:34:51 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: allmost

He had a great sinecure at the University of Chicago, “constitutional law lecturer” that he held for 12 years without publishing a single paper or article on any legal matter, let along constitutional law, a real academic prodigy, especially at a top drawer school like U of C.


43 posted on 04/02/2012 3:35:18 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: allmost
I was the incorrect one, not P.O.E. I had read that. He/She was responding to me.

Thanks for taking responsibility for your error, but P.O.E. also made the same mistake by echoing Mark Simone's echo of the liberal propagandists.

It's important that we counter all such false data wherever we find it. The crap self-perpetuates, even on our side. We simply shouldn't allow that.

44 posted on 04/02/2012 3:36:40 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: demkicker
No doubt Kagan gave BO the bad news of what the vote was - which is why he's coming out trying to sway their ultimate decision. I'm just praying his insulting tactic will backfire ...

You may recall Obama dissing the Supreme Court Justices before Congress and the American public in his annual State of the Union speech a couple of years ago. He doesn't have many admirers among those that sit on the US Supreme Court. This will only add insult to injury ... the Supremes are going to give it back to him in spades.

45 posted on 04/02/2012 3:40:23 PM PDT by BluH2o
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To: libstripper

Sinecure, good word. Is that not our current POTUS as well?


46 posted on 04/02/2012 3:40:51 PM PDT by allmost
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To: ExTxMarine

We’ve never actually seen proof that he was a “constitutional scholar”.


47 posted on 04/02/2012 3:44:41 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Windflier

Well said, but personal inflections cannot be determined afterward. Nor should they be. It was all me.


48 posted on 04/02/2012 3:45:01 PM PDT by allmost
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To: freedumb2003; allmost; Windflier

I guess I should’ve said “supposedly” has any expertise. IMHO, everything he knows he learned in (muslim) kindergarten. And his hatred of traditional America and its values runs rampant across the spectrum.

In any event, he’s mostly a puppet. I’d love to see a thorough expose of who’s been moving him along all these decades. I’d guess it’s way more than just Soros and Ayers.


49 posted on 04/02/2012 3:48:20 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: tobyhill
This is the second round. Remember the scotus speech?????
50 posted on 04/02/2012 3:48:43 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: tobyhill
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51 posted on 04/02/2012 3:49:25 PM PDT by greenhornet68
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To: pfflier
Sorry, I got that all messed up. Should have read:

This is the second round. Remember the scotus jab at his state of the union speech?????

52 posted on 04/02/2012 3:51:03 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: tobyhill
I think he already knows that he won. From Kagen or Sotomayor.
53 posted on 04/02/2012 3:54:37 PM PDT by deweyfrank
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To: demkicker
Here’s hoping the majority of Supreme’s won’t take kindly to BO’s ‘Chicago Way’ of threatening aka his ‘boot on their necks approach’

Four members of the SC would just kiss his butt. These four have no idea what the Constitutions means and are hard core socialists.

54 posted on 04/02/2012 3:56:10 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: allmost

This guy was a community organizer which means rabble rouser. He is a first class crook. However he is smart and that makes him very dangerous.


55 posted on 04/02/2012 3:56:10 PM PDT by entropy12 (Every tax payer now owes $150,000 towards the national debt. Greek tragedy on the way here.)
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To: allmost
personal inflections cannot be determined afterward. Nor should they be. It was all me.

Perhaps the other poster neglected to italicize your statements, and they appeared to be their own. I went back and looked at their post, and I only responded to what looked like their comments.

56 posted on 04/02/2012 3:56:42 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: dandiegirl

That is why I put it in quotes! LOL!


57 posted on 04/02/2012 3:59:30 PM PDT by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Thanks tobyhill.


58 posted on 04/02/2012 4:02:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (FReepathon 2Q time -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Windflier

Nevermind then ‘Windflier’. Better?


59 posted on 04/02/2012 4:04:54 PM PDT by allmost
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To: deweyfrank
I think it's the opposite. I think he has gotten word that the Individual Mandate will be ruled unconstitutional but that the rest will stand. Obama will send his surrogates out there to downplay the effects of the Individual Mandate on the overall law but then claim victory on the rest such as penalizing companies $2,000 for not supplying insurance.
60 posted on 04/02/2012 4:06:34 PM PDT by tobyhill (Fight Fire With Fire)
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