Obama issues stern language on Supreme Court health care decision

Yahoo.Com ^ | April 2, 2012 | Rachel Rose Hartman

[BradtotheBone]

President Obama on Monday issued stern language to the Supreme Court of the United States regarding his health care law, expressing confidence "Obamacare" will not be overturned by the nation's highest court.

"I'm confident this will be upheld because it should be upheld," the president said Monday afternoon at a White House press conference that included ‪Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who are attending the North American Leaders' Summit. The president said overturning the law would be "an unprecedented and extraordinary step" and compared the court's rejection of the law to "judicial activism."

"For years what we've heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism," the president said, baiting conservatives who have long complained about justices' political agendas. The president stressed that the judges are "unelected" and noted that the law was passed by a democratically elected Congress.

Monday's comments were the first public warning the president has issued since the justices heard oral arguments last week on the constitutionality of the law, which includes an individual health care mandate.

[Martin Tell]

Predictions were that if the Supremes' preliminary vote on Friday dumped Obamacare, Kagan would leak and WH would start slamming the Court.

Maybe it's time to ice some champagne?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The president stressed that the judges are "unelected" and noted that the law was deemed as passed by a democratically elected Congress.

There...fixed it.

[battlecry]

I sure hope you are right. It could also be they voted to upheld and Zero and Biden are on an ego trip.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"the president said Monday afternoon at a White House press conference that included ‪Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper...." As a Canadian, allow me to say I'm offended that our Obama drew our P.M. into this domestic U.S. issue, at a press conference about international matters.

[Graewoulf]

Meanwhile, the drumbeat of Dictator Baby-Doc Barack continues to grow louder :

-— regulate -— control -— destroy -— Regulate -— control -— destroy -— REgulate -— control -— destroy -— REGulate -— control -— destroy -— REGU

[Doc91678]

Hmmm.... That coming from a constitutional scholar? There are three branches of government within the United States of American. Executive, Legislative and the Judicial. When our forefathers established this it was to make checks and balances on government.
What will Obama do when SCOTUS finds ObamaCare unconstitutional?

[Menehune56]

Predictions were that if the Supremes' preliminary vote on Friday dumped Obamacare, Kagan would leak and WH would start slamming the Court.

I think this is Obama's way of telling the Supremes that he has no intention of stopping implementation in the event the Obamacare goes against him. Sort of like Old Ironsides threatening "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!"

[Iron Munro]

The 19th Century gave the world heavyweights like Max Planck and Albert Einstein.

The 20th Century gave us towering figures like Enrico Fermi, Winston Churchill and Werner Von Braun.

The 21st century gives us a featherweight named Barack Obama in the presidency to show how far we have fallen toward the lowest common denominator.

"I'm confident this will be upheld because it should be upheld"

Well then, that should give the Supremes all the intellectual and historical guidance they need.

The Arrogant Dunce

[AngelesCrestHighway]

FUBO!

[stephenjohnbanker]

” The president stressed that the judges are “unelected” “

Anybody have a copy of the graduation picture of Obama’s Harvard Law School class?

[BfloGuy]

There are three branches of government within the United States of American. Executive, Legislative and the Judicial. When our forefathers established this it was to make checks and balances on government.

I agree, but I have to wonder why so many FReepers were thrilled when Gingrich announced that, as president, he would ignore Supreme Court decisions he disagreed with. Everyone seemed to think that was a peachy precedent to set.

Now, not so much.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Watch Pelosi for indicators too. I doubt the leaks would have stopped with Barry.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Not the first time Obama has insulted PM Harper. On his last visit Obama went on an anti-Keystone Pipeline tirade, and the PM standing at another podium four feet away.

[loveliberty2]

Soooo. . . . This is going to be his 'straw man' argument!

For him to take conservative opposition to what they describe as "judicial activism" and attempt to turn it against the Court's appropriate role of interpreting the Constitution's limits on government power is the maneuver one might expect from him. Meanwhile, his own appointee knows exactly what conservatives have meant when they speak of "judicial activisim."

When conservatives complain about "judicial activism," they are describing the same kind of "activism" as his appointee to the Court, Sotomayor, described in her meeting at Duke University when she stated that the "court of appeals is where policy is made," and then added, "I know I shouldn't have said that, but . . . ."-- with a smile.

His open attempt at intimidating what he referred to as the "unelected" branch of government is a reminder of the wisdom of America's Founders in their making it just that: an "unelected" and, hopefully, an independent and objective group of individuals who would look to the approbation of future generations, and their liberty and freedom, rather than the railings or approval of a temporary and Partisan political leader of the moment.

[twister881]

Tells me it was a close 5-4 vote on the mandate, severability, or Medicaid issues, and Bathhouse Barry is [unethically] attempting to influence Kennedy to change his mind.

I still have the picture in my mind of Bathhouse Barry reading the riot act to SCOTUS justices regarding the Citizens United decision at the 2011 SOTU, and Justice Alito mouthing the words, “Not true.”

Payback’s a b**ch, Hussein.

[Jacquerie]

His open attempt at intimidating what he referred to as the "unelected" branch of government

Balls for fifty. This from the guy who unleashed dozens of czars, a veritable army of unelected bureaucrats, multitudes of new offices, to harass the people and eat out their substance.

[jazusamo]

Well said. Sotomayor's words reflect the manor in which she and Obama would have our government run and it's undoubtedly why he nominated her.

For Obama to mock the way our forefathers set up our Constitutional Republic shows he's not interested in continuing that system, he's interested in changing it to a Marxist form of government.

Thanks for the ping, LL2.

[RossB]

This is the final draft of the health care bill, Mr. President.

Well, well, gentlemen. A hefty piece, if you will. BUT, is it constitutional?

If you wish, Mr. President.

[JDoutrider]

-— regulate -— control -— destroy -— Regulate -— control -— destroy -— REgulate -— control -— destroy -— REGulate -— control -— destroy -— REGU...

Our mantra shall now be: Impeach- Indict- Incarcerate!