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Posted on 04/02/2012 6:41:51 PM PDT by Still Thinking
President Obama preemptively slammed the Supreme Court as a bunch of "unelected group of people" who will have turned to "judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint" if they decide to strike down his signature legislative achievement, the healthcare reform act.
Obama was speaking at a trilateral event with the Prime Minister of Canada and President of Mexico.
Obama touted the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, as "a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically-elected Congress."
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That this President threw out such an arrogant straw man argument and intimidation tactic prior to the Court’s ruling is reprehensible, especially since he did it while standing between the leaders of two foreign nations.
The rapist Bill Clinton could not be removed from office and neither will Obama, no matter how guilty he is.
Obama has ignored Congress as he has ignored a court order with impunity. Impeachment proceedings will start race riots throughout the country, the REPUBS will not go after the traitor in the White House.
You sound like Dagny Taggart or John Galt. Bad factoryrat, bad! (JK)
Obama could walk naked in to the well of the senate, and rape the nearest page, be it a boy or girl - and he would not get impeached.
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Since when does a president lobby the SCOTIS. They are independent branches. I hope they send his letter back saying that they will not consider it.
Grrr.
Actually not unprecedented. Good old FDR issued a similar worded warning to the Supreme Court with his Social Security program.
I can recall when a liberal federal judge struck down Prop. 187 in California, a ballot initiative in which would have denied all kinds of freebies to illegal aliens in the Golden State.
Millions of California voters were dis-enfranchised by one moonbat “judge,” and not one liberal politician said boo.
True to his nature, he couldn’t even exercise enough restraint to stop himself from saying things that will surely not be conducive to good relations with the Court. For all his deceit and manipulation, his lack of self-control when he’s really pizzed undermines his own agenda. I wish he’d go off script more often, but apparently his handlers are aware of his lack of restraint and penchant for showing his pettiness and arrogance.
The MFB is a tyrant. Any president respective of his oath would not accept the plenary powers granted by Princess Nancy and Duke Harry. GW would recognize the abuse.
it fits right into his plan...to divide us.
Are my lib friends outraged over this?
Of course not...they are too busy recalling how - in 2000, a conservative SC “gave” the election to Bush!
It doesn’t matter that Bush won the election. He won the first recount. He won the second recount.
The crooks tried to fish for the “intention” of voters in tossed away ballots in heavily democrat counties.
What did the Supremes really say?
They said GASP!! Please use a uniform standard throughout the entire state.
OH THE HUMANITY!!!
Yep. Whether they’re in the majority or the minority, they still collect their pay and perks. There’s no such thing as public service anymore. They don’t want to upset the gravy train over something as unimportant as representation and Constitutionality. They’re exempt from ObamaCare anyway.
As has been stated:
“The great irony is all of this is that it is a Black president who is trying to destroy individual liberty.”
so now defending the constitution is activism, and we have always been at war with Oceanian...
Obama evidently believes the Supremes should be subservient to Him...what gaul he has!.......but I do not underestimate the influnces going on behind the scenes with the Supremes.
I believe he spoke out simply as a means to continue to rise his base....and keep them engaged with him. Also a slap in the face of the Supremes...once again...Chicago thuggery.
We all remember how they ramrodded this thru...and the games played to do so. One of the worst nights of my life in Politics! And another rude awakening to the dirty and underhanded ways the democrates crap on the American people...and the dirty politics our guys will yield to!
Failing to strike down Obama care would be contravening the constitution.
The actual definition of judicial activism: when the court rewrites a law instead of the legislature doing it; legislating from the bench; creating law out of thin air, law that did not exist before; reinterpreting law to mean something that is not there.
The liberal definition of judicial activism: the court not agreeing with the liberal’s view of whether a law is constitutional or not.
You can see which definition Obama uses. Same term, but vastly different definition. And the devil is in the definition.
He also didnt take into account that Obamacare and other forms of absolute government control are very bad for the trial lawyer industry ......
and Judges happen to be lawyers with robes on
a balance of powers is kryptonite to the leftist
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