Posted on 04/03/2012 7:18:38 AM PDT by IbJensen
The highest elected official in the United States dished out an extra helping of irony yesterday when, in speaking at a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, President Barack Obama slammed the Supreme Court as an “unelected group of people” who will have turned to “judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint” if they strike down Obamacare.
The President’s remarks imply that the Court, were it to rule the individual mandate unconstitutional, would be acting recklessly in undertaking judicial review of Congress’ unprecedented use of the Commerce Clause to force Americans to buy health care or pay a penalty. The irony in all this is that this President has presided over an Administration that is the epitome of recklessly abusing power, at times in flagrant violation of the Constitution, and has empowered unelected bureaucrats to write scads of new regulations impacting nearly every corner of American life.
Obamacare, of course, is a prime example of that unchecked and multiplying web of the President’s boundless dictates. The law’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (otherwise known as “IPAB”) is packed with unelected bureaucrats who have the power to limit seniors’ treatment options and access to care, essentially ending Medicare as we know it.
On top of IPAB, Obamacare is rife with new regulations, all courtesy of unelected bureaucrats. Professor of law Gary Lawson writes that the implementation of Obamcare “will require many years and literally thousands of administrative regulations, and those regulations will ultimately determine the substantive content and coverage of the law.” In other words, the future of health care in America will not be determined by the people’s elected representatives, but by administrative rulemakings handed down by unelected and largely unknown agency officials. How’s that for a “democratically elected government”?
Obamacare, though, isn’t the only example of the Obama Administration imposing its will via executive fiat. In a new study, Heritage’s James Gattuso and Diane Katz detail 106 new major federal regulations that added more than $46 billion per year in new costs for Americans. And those are regulations enacted not by elected officials who are accountable to voters, but by Washington bureaucrats who can wield their power without having to answer to the people.
While the President is throwing stones at the court, he’s living in a glass house from which he has exercised his tyrannical abuse of power. In January, the President cast aside the Constitution when he illegally appointed Richard Cordray to serve as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, along with three appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, all without Senate approval, as the Constitution requires. Former attorney general Ed Meese described the President’s actions as ”a constitutional abuse of a high order,” and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said it was ”a brazen attempt to undercut the role of the Senate to advise and consent the executive branch on appointments.”
And this is the President who said in December, “What I’m not gonna do is wait for Congress. So wherever we have an opportunity and I have the executive authority to go ahead and get some things done, we’re just gonna go ahead and do ‘em,” irrespective of whether the people’s duly elected representatives have a say in the matter.
Now that the President is seeing the potential for his signature legislation to go down in flames because of its unconstitutional individual mandate, he is lashing out at the Supreme Court. To date, President Obama has enjoyed ruling with impunity and has attempted to carry out his agenda without so much as a hat tip to the Constitution. But come June when the Court rules on Obamacare, the President might finally see part of his agenda stopped in its tracks.
Remember when Obama dumped on the Justices over the Citizens United decision in the 2010 State of the Union address? Betcha some of his political team is wishing he hadn’t done so right about now. You know what they say about payback...
That said, I don’t think the Supreme Court would stoop so low as to make their decision based on (justifiable) ill-will.
Agree....someone has already “leaked” the ruling to him! Now he thinks his Godly position will enable him to threaten the conservative Supremes into changing their minds.
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. Ponder the enormity of this lie. The SCourt has NEVER OVERTURNE A LAW BEFORE!!. And 30% of Americans are so ignorant they will believe him.
This Motherhugging Kenyan Socialist Muslim Marxist Crack Smoking D**k Sucker (also known as President Barack Obama) knows full well that Judicial Review, which is their precise function, has been the job of the Supreme Court since the country was founded.
Unprecedented???!? This is the use of Hitler's Big Lie premise!!!
Let me give you a feew precedents to the Supreme Court "overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress"
Supreme Court Overturns Campaign Finance Law
And that's just two examples. There are more.
Obama and Billy Goat Clinton have much in common. Not only did they not know their father, but it seems neither mother married the father.:
The legend is that on February 2, 1961, against Madelyn’s hopes, and against the desires of Obama’s father back in Kenya, Stanley Ann, three months pregnant, and Senior hopped a plane to Maui and got married.
The wedding had no no minister, rabbi, or imam. There were no bridesmaids, ushers, witnesses, guests — not even her parents. And no record of the happy event has yet been found. There is no wedding license or marriage certificate in the divorce papers.
The Huffington Post ran a feature, “Michelle Obama Talks About ‘Guilt’ Women Hold,” in which she says that Obama’s own mother was “very young and very single when she had him.”
so this should not be overturned due to “the magnificent wonderfulness of being Obama”!!
that must be a new constitutional rule.
"The court commands no armies, it has no money; it depends for its power on its credibility. The only reason people obey it is because it has that credibility. And the court risks grave damage if it strikes down a statute of this magnitude and importance, and stretches so dramatically and drastically to do it."Well, the only reason Obama's subordinates obey HIM is because they feel his orders have legitimacy. And it is the Supreme Court which declares the legitimacy or illegitimacy of his orders. I think he realizes that, and it has him worried.
Great points and that strong congressional majority was unceremoniously booted out of office for concocting and voting for this travesty.
It’s Orwellian. He just chucked 200 years of SCOTUS history down the memory hole.
“the magnificent wonderfulness of being Obama”
passed by a strong majority
I’m sure he will frighten them into the “correct” decision. hahhhh!!! Sorry.. but if there is a fence sitter in one of these 9 justices, that threat is going to strengthen their resolve to vote against Obamacare. That is human psychology 101...
In the book “Left Behind,“ a snake-oil salesman named Carpathian brings the World to ruin.
Dictator Baby-Doc Barack is our Carpathian as he tries to bring America to ruin.
The Heritage opinion was explained to me once.
I believe they were paid a fee to do the evaluation and the subsequent reporting of what question was asked and how it was answered has been poorly reported and biased.
I think Heritage is clean on this, but I’d like a link as well.
remember when obama insulted the USSC and justices with particularity during the state fo the union speech?
I bet they did not either.
You bet they are going to shove this all the way up his fanny with a red hot poker.
Actually, given his sexual preferences, he would rather fancy that.
I don’t call him Obuggery and OFudgePackula for nothing.
Obama is behaving more like a National Socialist every day.
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