[Libloather]

Did the Supremes comment when the RATS held their secret Commiecare™ meetings? RATS just don't know when to shaddap.

[Sacajaweau]

Obama is just trying to figure out how to play this....and to remind “the new girls on the block” as to how they got there.

[greatvikingone]

I wish we had a president who appreciated our system of government instead of being the lead bully trying to undo it.

[maryz]

I thought it was illegal to try to pressure judges . . . well, maybe not anymore; after all, contract killings seem to be acceptable now . . .

[autumnraine]

The assertion that welfare and social security would be threatened is ridiculous. It’s one thing to take my taxes and dole it out, it’s another to force me to PURCHASE A PRODUCT FROM ANOTHER ENTITY.

[olezip]

“I’m confident the Supreme Court will uphold the law,” Obama said Monday during a Rose Garden press conference.

I wonder if Obama is aware that not all laws passed by the congress are necessarily constitutional? Our country has checks and balances in order to ensure that the law is constitutional. There are many, many examples of past controversial rulings in which cases an unconstitutional law was not upheld for obvious reasons.

Many, if not most Americans know this.

[ballplayer]

Sounds like we have a Bunch of Radicals and some Prima Donnas on the Court,God Help us all

[Timber Rattler]

Kagan has already given them the bad news, based on Obama’s reaction here.

[Vaquero]

[FES0844]

shaddap...You sound like you’re from Brooklyn, my home town!

[formosa]

We are seeing the left resort to intimidation, personal attacks, and throwing fits on a daily basis now. It’s becoming a moment to moment way of life for them and it is starting to seem normal behavior to many people who seem to just excuse it out of hand.

America is truly lost if we can demand no better from elected officials.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...Obama and Democrats have made it clear that they would fiercely criticize a ruling against the healthcare law

So what?

[sickoflibs]

RE :”President Obama was the latest to weigh in when he declared Monday that a wide array of legal experts would be astonished if the court struck down part or all of his signature domestic initiative.
“I’m confident the Supreme Court will uphold the law,” Obama said Monday during a Rose Garden press conference. “That’s not just my opinion but also the opinion of legal experts across the political spectrum.”
He said it would be “unprecedented” for the court to strike down the individual mandate, which requires the uninsured to buy health coverage or pay a penalty. “

This is obviously a political message to Obama’s liberal base who didnt like Obama-care in the first place but found themselves rallying behind Obama against the Republican House. Once again he plays the same act against the SCOTUS to rally them.

Note his consistent style : He says is confident that the SCOTUS will do the right thing. He said the exact same thing about the Republican House on that deficit deal he blew up. Call it Phony optimism for political effect.

The legal arguments for upholding the mandate and other parts all revolve around court precedents giving congress power to do mostly anything it wants since Roosevelt. Notice Libs don't see precedents as their limitation, like marraige definition 10,000 years as opposite sex.

This is the obama who claims that DOMA is unconstitutional. Arrogance is his name for sure.

[Mannaggia l'America]

If they throw out the individual mandate, but leave the rest in place, it is the equivalent of the Supreme Court having a Line Item Veto, which they ruled as unconstitutional for the President!

[DrC]

“If you say this is unconstitutional, then you have to say Social Security and Medicare are also unconstitutional”

I can live with that!

I concur that the timing and intensity of this hand-wringing strongly suggest Kagan has leaked word that Friday’s vote went badly for Obamacare.

Of course, all this ex parte lobbying may well backfire, as it amounts to “piling on” after the president’s attempt to publicly humiliate the Court during the SOTU. The conservative justices on SCOTUS well know the Court’s proper role and presumably are deeply offended by POTUS’s unprecedented politicking for a favored result.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but IIRC, even AlGore had the decency to keep his lips zipped while SCOTUS was deliberately during Bush v. Gore.

[prairiebreeze]

I wonder if this sort of thing would be enough to make Kennedy fold like a cheap umbrella...

[Personal Responsibility]

“I’m confident the Supreme Court will uphold the law,” Obama said Monday during a Rose Garden press conference. “That’s not just my opinion but also the opinion of legal experts across the political spectrum.”

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Translated:
“we have asked the opinion of people from across the spectrum for their opinions. White liberals, black liberals, Hispanic liberals, gay liberals, female liberals, handicapped liberals, old liberals and young ones too. All agree this law should be upheld”

Seriously, he lives in a real life echo chamber.

[EEGator]

I love the smell of tyranny in the morning...smells like oppression.

[Lazamataz]

"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.

This Motherhugging Kenyan Socialist Muslim Marxist Crack Smoking D**k Sucker (also known as President Barack Obama) knows full well that Judicial Review, which is their precise function, has been the job of the Supreme Court since the country was founded.

Unprecedented???!? This is the use of Hitler's Big Lie premise!!!

Let me give you a feew precedents to the Supreme Court "overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress"

1) Supreme Court Overturns Campaign Finance Law

2) Marbury v. Madison was the first instance in which a law passed by Congress was declared unconstitutional. The decision greatly expanded the power of the Court by establishing its right to overturn acts of Congress, a power not explicitly granted by the Constitution. Initially the case involved Secretary of State James Madison, who refused to seat four judicial appointees although they had been confirmed by the Senate.

And that's just two examples. There are more.

[upchuck]

“I think it’s a clear-cut case. I think you have to stretch to say this is unconstitutional but Social Security, for example, or Medicare is constitutional,” Leahy said. “If you say this is unconstitutional, then you have to say Social Security and Medicare are also unconstitutional. I’m not sure the court is prepared to do that.”

Hey Leakey, neither Social Security nor Medicare require me to buy something under threat of penalty if I don't. Plus, in theory, both of these programs are paid for through payroll withholding. In theory, it is a return of money I've already invested.

[4Liberty]

Intimidation - it's a way of life to the Rats...