Posted on 10/13/2020 6:31:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
Day 1 of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination hearings hadn’t gotten off the ground before Joe Biden was lying about her in front of a camera.
And as usual with Biden, it didn’t take long for the truth to come out.
The former vice president and current Democratic nominee for president was on his way to a plane to Ohio on Monday morning, according to the Washington Examiner, when he paused to answer a question about President Donald Trump’s third nominee to the high court.
Biden could have contented himself with again spinning a yarn about how the Barrett nomination is “unconstitutional” (it’s not). He could have complained that Republicans were violating their own precedent from the 2016 fight over Obama nominee Merrick Garland (they’re not).
Instead, being Biden, he went straight to a flat-out lie about the nominee’s record – particularly as it relates to the monstrosity known as Obamacare.
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“This nominee said she wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act — this president wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act,” Biden said. “Let’s keep our eye on the ball. This is about less than one month, Americans are going to lose their health insurance.”
Check out the video below. The crucial part starts about 20 seconds in, but viewers who watch from the beginning will get to watch as Biden pretty clearly could not remember the name of Mitt Romney — a fairly familiar name in political circles, being the current senator and former Massachusetts governor who challenged Biden and then-President Barack Obama in the 2012 election. (Yet more evidence that Biden is not entirely with it upstairs.)
What Biden said was simply not true, though as usual with Biden’s fabrications, there was a fact buried in there that served as his stepping stone to fantasy.
As Fox News reported, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare on Nov. 10.
If the Senate confirms Barrett, as Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has all but vowed, she will be on the high court in time for those arguments.
The problem is that Biden grossly overstated Barrett’s writings on Obamacare to the point of malicious fiction.
As the Washington Examiner reported, in a 2017 piece for the law review of Notre Dame Law School, Barrett took on the 2012 landmark opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts that contorted logical and legal thought to find a way to uphold the constitutionality of the law.
“Chief Justice Roberts pushed the Affordable Care Act beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute,” Barrett wrote. “He construed the penalty imposed on those without health insurance as a tax, which permitted him to sustain the statute as a valid exercise of the taxing power; had he treated the payment as the statute did — as a penalty — he would have had to invalidate the statute as lying beyond Congress’s commerce power.”
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Countless opinions have been written about Roberts’ ruling in that case, and American conservatives know well that they’ve never fully trusted the chief justice since (with very good reason). But the point here is not Roberts’ mangling of the law to get his desired result — or even the likely result of the new Obamacare case.
It’s Biden’s willful misrepresentation of what Barrett wrote about Obamacare that matters.
She did not write that she wanted to get rid of Obamacare. She wrote that the ruling that upheld it was a willful construction by Roberts that pushed the words of the law beyond their “plausible meaning.”
In other words, if there is an argument that Obamacare and its infringements on American liberty are constitutional, Roberts’ ruling didn’t make it.
“A faithful judge resists the temptation to conflate the meaning of the Constitution with the judge’s own political preference,” Barrett wrote later in the review piece.
Those are words every conservative can get behind – they’re words every American should get behind.
But they’re deadly to Democrats, who’ve spent decades winning victories in court they could never win in a free and fair election.
Democrats know that, which is why they’ve turned Supreme Court confirmations – a hitherto routine part of constitutional government – into one more front in their endless attacks on the constitutional government established by the Founders.
Many Americans have probably forgotten how big of a role Biden played in that development.
He was the Senate Judiciary chairman, after all, when Judge Robert Bork’s confirmation to the Supreme Court was destroyed in 1987.
He was also chairman of the Judiciary Committee in 1991, when the nomination of now-Justice Clarence Thomas was very nearly destroyed by 11th-hour attacks and accusations of sexual harassment.
Thanks in large part to Biden’s own career, Democrats have made it clear they’re capable of going to disgraceful lengths to stop a conservative justice from being seated on the court.
No American who witnessed the 2018 battle over Brett Kavanaugh can ever forget that.
And now comes Joe Biden again, about to get on a campaign plane in his third run for the presidency, launching a lie at an honorable nominee like Amy Coney Barrett before her hearings even got off the ground.
Unfortunately for Democrats, the day wasn’t even over before the truth came out.
Scaring seniors with; TRUMP WILL GET RID OF MEDICARE!.....TRUMP WILL DESTROY SOCIAL SECURITY!........TRUMP WILL DESTROY YOUR HEALTHCARE!........
Disgusting!..............I have never seen such vitriolic political ads and so full of outright lies...................
Lying is SOP for Democrats.
Did you forget that rip van byeDUHn stated that if it’s between truth and facts, they’ll pick truth? And they’ll let you know what the “truth” is. :-)
And as usual with Biden, it didn’t take long for the truth to come out.”
Came out where no one will see it.
The best way to deal with the disgusting perfidy of Joe Dementia and Willie Brown's concubine is to whip them like rented mules on election day.
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If a Democrat lies, and the media doesn’t call them on it, is it a lie?
The idiots in the American public don’t think so.
That's even quicker than when he started lying about Clarence Thomas
Senator Biden was the first questioner. Instead of the softball questions he’d promised to ask, he threw a beanball straight at my head, quoting from a speech I’d given four years earlier at the Pacific Legal Foundation and challenging me to defend what I’d said. ”I find attractive the arguments of scholars such as Stephen Macedo, who defend an activist Supreme Court that would strike down laws restricting property rights.” That caught me off guard, and I had no recollection of making so atypical a statement, which shook me up even more. “Now, it would seem to me what you were talking about,” Senator Biden went on to say, “is you find it attractive the fact that they are activists and they would like to strike down existing laws that impact on restricting the use of property rights, because you know, that is what they write about.”pp 235-236 of "My Grandfather's Son" by Clarence ThomasSince I didn’t remember making the statement in the first place, I didn’t know how to respond to it. All I could say in reply was that “it has been some time since I have read Professor Macedo … But I don’t believe that in my writings I have indicated that we should have an activist Supreme Court.” It was, I knew, a weak answer. Fortunately, though, the young lawyers who had helped prepare me for the hearing had loaded all of my speeches into a computer and at the first break in the proceedings they looked this one up. The senator, they found, had wrenched my words out of context. I looked at the text and saw that the passage he’d read out loud had been immediately followed by two other sentences: “But the libertarian argument overlooks the place of the Supreme Court in a scheme of separation of powers. One does not strengthen self-government and the rule of law by having the non-democratic branch of the government make policy.” The point I’d been making was the opposite of the one that Senator Biden claimed I had made.
let's hope he is rip van byeDONE
I still remember Biden’s sneering expression during the Clarence Thomas hearings. I remember my Ohio senators...Glenn polluting his former astronaut identity as a Democrat now, and the reptilian Howard Metzenbaum. And Ted Kennedy. I remember there MUST be a hell since where else would Kennedy, Metzenbaum, and Biden go?
Biden’s main tool is misdirection - when challenged on his own record it’s: “Look at him - look at Trump!”
I think that attacking Trump is about all he can remember to do or say. His brain function is limited due to the dementia.
This statement is so inane that, it alone, disqualifies Biden from being president.
ACB has NEVER said such a thing nor has she ever ruled on the ACA from the bench.
Lastly, there is currently NOT ONE SINGLE CASE anywhere in the US that is awaiting USSC adjudication.
And his sneering and mugging in his debate with the hapless Paul Ryan in 2012.
On this question A.C.B.neatly sucked the rug from under the Marxists this AM when questioned by Linda G. who did a nice job I must say.
Joe’s lie will sound true to a low information voter. They have no background for the subject.
This is not news, this is a daily occurence with Biden and his Democrat goons. The only thing noteworthy is that it was noticed and can be found out there in the internet. The media will never say it, and the Techno Nazis will scrub their platforms relentlessly. This one is a leaker. The algorithims are being revised as we speak.
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