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The President Runs Against the Supremes
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 4/2/2012 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 04/03/2012 7:10:06 AM PDT by servo1969

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RUSH: Here's Barack Obama. He got a question this afternoon. After last week's arguments at the Supreme Court, many experts believe there could be a majority five-member vote to strike down the individual mandate. If that were to happen, if it were to be ruled unconstitutional, what would you do? Would you still guarantee health care to the uninsured and those Americans who would become insured as a result of the law?

OBAMA: Ultimately I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.

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RUSH: It wasn't.

OBAMA: I just remind conservative commentators that for years what we heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint. That an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example, and I'm pretty confident that this court will recognize that.

RUSH: None of what he said is true. He didn't define "judicial activism" properly. Judicial activism is writing new law. This is not judicial activism if they overturn it. It's supporting the law. It's confirming the law. There was not a large majority. This was not a bipartisan victory. Here's the next sound bite.

OBAMA: I'm confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld, and again, that's not just my opinion. That's the opinion of a whole lot of constitutional law professors and academies and judges and lawyers who have examined this law, even if they're not particularly sympathetic to this particular piece of legislation or my presidency.

RUSH: What is that, not sympathetic to my presidency? Yeah, the people who thought it's constitutional are shocked, and now they're beginning to look -- we've been through all this last week. I don't need to re-trod past ground. But, folks, he also went on to talk about how unelected officials should not have any say-so in this matter. It's almost like he expects this thing to be found unconstitutional. It's almost like he expects it to be struck down. The real question here, here's a constitutional law professor, Barack Obama, and he doesn't know that his mandate's unconstitutional. And the truth is, he doesn't care. He really doesn't care. There are more sound bites. His answer rambled. It went on and on and on. We'll have more on this tomorrow, folks. But it appears that he's crossing the line, separation of powers here, and wants to run against the Supreme Court. That has not worked for presidents in the past.

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RUSH: Hey, Mr. President, last time I looked, a bunch of unelected people created a national abortion law, and I think you were pretty cool with that, Roe v. Wade, 1973. A bunch of unelected people created out of whole cloth a right that doesn't even exist, doesn't even show up in the Constitution. So, as usual, hypocritical as possible.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; obamacare; rush; scotus

1 posted on 04/03/2012 7:10:16 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

Elena told him the outcome, within minutes after she knew.
It was 6-3 against him. He’s furious and trying to intimidate them into changing their votes before the final decision is rendered in June.

All my conjecture, of course.


2 posted on 04/03/2012 7:12:24 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: servo1969
Self-professed Constitutional scholar doesn't know Supreme Court has struck down laws like Obamacare only 1,315 times before
3 posted on 04/03/2012 7:14:49 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: MrB

If you are correct, then by letting him stew until June we may finally get the public meltdown moment from Barry that will once and for all puncture his public aura of being “Mr. Cool”.


4 posted on 04/03/2012 7:15:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: MrB

I agree and OAD should pipe down lest they should agree to take another case that challenges his eligibility. I think this is the first step of a plan for the Washington establishment to remove him.


5 posted on 04/03/2012 7:16:02 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: servo1969

Obama is not only a prevaricating petty tyrant, he’s not very bright.


6 posted on 04/03/2012 7:16:29 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: MrB

Probably wishes he could try to pad the court, like FDR tried to do.


7 posted on 04/03/2012 7:18:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: MrB

He’s getting into practice for when he becomes dictator. I’m sure one if his first acts as president for life will be to arrest the Supremes and his enemies in Congress. Then it will be Rush and the other pundits who alike out against him. Eventually, he will come after the rest if us.


8 posted on 04/03/2012 7:22:08 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: dfwgator

FDR didn’t have the internet working against him.
We could fill the mall with millions of protestors if he threatened to do that.

Of course, bammers has shown a distinct disdain for the will of the people in the past, so maybe millions on the mall wouldn’t affect him in the least.


9 posted on 04/03/2012 7:22:31 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: skeeter
he’s not very bright.

Witness his whipping-up of the Trayvon Martin thing to the point where we have mobs of angry black people marching around in hoodies and looting Walgreens.

Has he never heard of Richard Nixon, or how a candidate as bad as Nixon managed to win in two landslides? He'll send all the white voters screaming towards Romney. Very dumb politics!
10 posted on 04/03/2012 7:23:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: fatnotlazy

He fantasizes about that. The WE is on to him and he has more enemies than he can possibly imagine now.


11 posted on 04/03/2012 7:26:53 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

True and I don’t think voters of other hues are wild about the ugly turn in his political rhetoric either.


12 posted on 04/03/2012 7:28:29 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: skeeter

for sure Hispanics aren’t liking it


13 posted on 04/03/2012 7:30:09 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: servo1969

Bamster’s reign keeps reminding me of shades of that 2006 movie “Idiocracy”.


14 posted on 04/03/2012 7:30:21 AM PDT by swamprebel (Where liberty dwells, there is my country.)
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To: servo1969

Has Diana Ross commented?


15 posted on 04/03/2012 7:39:17 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
Bill Clinton ran against “The Temptations”...
16 posted on 04/03/2012 8:03:53 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romney - Santorum: Twin Sons of Different Mothers...)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Martha Reeves of The Vandellas is a Detroit City Councilwoman. Is she going to primary Barry?


17 posted on 04/03/2012 8:05:55 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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