White House Calls Ruling Striking Down Health Care Law 'An Outlier' (possible contempt?)

ABC News ^ | 1/31/11

[Windflier]

I suspected a generous reading on the part of the administration was the reason for their insistence that they were not enjoined from proceeding with implementation.

It's pretty hard to "generously" read the judge's final statement on the matter (at page 75). It's unequivocal, and leaves no wiggle room.

I suspect that the administration's statements that they'll continue to implement Obamacare are nothing more than hot air. They know full well what the judge's ruling says.

Obama et al will need another court to issue a stay of Judge Vinson's ruling for them to continue implementing Obamacare.

[Houghton M.]

It was just an in-joke. Mark L. likes to say, after he’s said something provocative, “there, I said it.” I bet he said that after he said that. But I didn’t hear him make the sedition charge, so I added it here, in the third person. Mark Levin fans might have caught the allusion.

[MrB]

After they were slapped down by a judge on the moratorium of gulf oil drilling,

they continued to disallow drilling.
They paid no attention to the courts telling them they couldn’t stop the drilling.

[kevslisababy]

But he did say it, and it didn’t sound tongue-in-cheek to me. Which makes me wonder just what it would take for others to consider it seriously; because I do think it’s a definite possibility.

[Windflier]

After they were slapped down by a judge on the moratorium of gulf oil drilling, they continued to disallow drilling. They paid no attention to the courts...

Stopping someone from engaging in a certain activity is one thing, but forcing them to engage in an activity is something altogether different.

I expect most of the states are going to tell the Obama administration to shove their health care mandates up their patootie.

[Houghton M.]

When he says, “There, I said it.” it doesn’t mean that he said whatever he said “tongue-in-cheek.” It means he’s just said something the pushed the envelope, that is likely to be considered eeeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiillllllll and extreme and so forth by liberals. “There, I said it” is his way of saying, “I said it and I meant it and you can bitch about it all you want, you liberals. I said it.”

When in invoked sedition with regard to Zero’s contempt of court, I can hear him saying, “There, I said it” because using the sedition or treason label is pretty strong stuff and the sort of thing that libs consider beyond the pale. So I can imagine Levin taunting them with “There, I said it.”

In any case, that’s what I was alluding to. It was an allusion that Levin fans would recognize.

There, I’ve explained it.