Posted on 04/04/2012 6:33:20 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON — How dare President Barack Obama brush back the Supreme Court like that?
Has this former constitutional law instructor no respect for our venerable system of checks and balances?
Nah. And why should he?
This court, cosseted behind white marble pillars, out of reach of TV, accountable to no one once they give the last word, is well on its way to becoming one of the most divisive in modern U.S. history.
It has squandered even the semi-illusion that it is the unbiased, honest guardian of the Constitution. It is run by hacks dressed up in black robes.
All the fancy diplomas of the conservative majority cannot disguise the fact that its reasoning on the most important decisions affecting Americans seems shaped more by a political handbook than a legal brief.
Obama never should have waded into the health care thicket back when the economy was teetering. He should have listened to David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel and not Michelle.
His failure from the start to sell his plan or even explain it is bizarre and self-destructive. And certainly he needs a more persuasive solicitor general.
Still, it was stunning to hear Antonin Scalia talking like a Senate whip during oral arguments last week on the constitutionality of the health care law. He mused on how difficult it would be to get 60 votes to repeal parts of the act, explaining why the court may just throw out the whole thing. And, sounding like a campaign's oppo-research guy, he batted around politically charged terms like "Cornhusker Kickback," referring to a sweetheart deal that isn't even in the law.
If he's so brilliant, why is he drawing a risible parallel between buying health care and buying broccoli?
The justices want to be above it all, beyond reproach or criticism.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
...from half-black-hacks.
I believe that RULES APPLY when a Moron Dowd article is posted. Someone PLEASE comply.
I believe that RULES APPLY when a Moron Dowd article is posted. Someone PLEASE comply.
Anyone know right off hand if Maureen is a midget?
Would those “important decisions affecting Americans” include Roe v Wade, Maureen?
What a sad character you are. It all ultimately comes back to Bush and Gore, doesn’t it...
Dowd is still alive? I thought that bitter old fossil dried up and blew away years ago!
Is this buffoon still around?
No, she’s out there pimping for the Food Stamp President. Luckily, she doesn’t have a lot of time left to post inane columns.
She sure isn’t Maureen Dowd and she doesn’t look like any Supreme Court Justice I’ve ever seen. Why are Catherine Zeta Jones pictures posted on this article?
Maureen Dowd, aka Ignorant Slut
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