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Obama Warns Supremes: Don't Overturn Healthcare Reform
Big Government ^ | May 4, 2012 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 05/04/2012 4:22:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

The Obama administration warned the Supreme Court this week via papers filed with the Court that if Obamacare is struck down, there will be an “extraordinary disruption” in Medicare.

Medicare was not discussed during the Supreme Court arguments, since it was not a Constitutional issue.

This is a practical argument, not a legal one; it’s the Obama administration applying pressure to the Supremes. But that’s what the Obama administration does – they focus on the politics of the situation rather than on the legalities.

If they can’t win on the law, they figure, they’ll push the Court to act via “empathy,” President Obama’s favorite legal standard.

And if they lose, they’ll blame the Court for destroying Medicare. It’s a win-win for the Obama administration: if the Court strikes down Obamacare, Obama will blame the Court for harming Medicare. If the Court upholds Obamacare to prevent an “extraordinary disruption” in Medicare, Obama gets what he wants.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; backoffbarry; bhofascism; bhothuggery; deathpanels; democrats; fubo; govtabuse; medicare; obama; obamacare; obamatruthfile; scotus; tyranny; zerocare
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To: UriÂ’el-2012

I don’t know much,
but I thought Jury-tampering was a crime.

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Good point!


41 posted on 05/04/2012 7:21:01 PM PDT by Homers-odd-I-see (We've got to get Obama out of the White House on Nov. 6, 2012)
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To: Noob1999

I had kinda hoped that the pubbies would unleash the facts about the bogus birth certificate in Sept/Oct.
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Do they have something new?


42 posted on 05/04/2012 7:21:18 PM PDT by Homers-odd-I-see (We've got to get Obama out of the White House on Nov. 6, 2012)
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To: The Wizard

Has anyone else noticed that everythng this asshole has done has backfired recently
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YES!!! Many of us, and many other Americans, have.


43 posted on 05/04/2012 7:21:28 PM PDT by Homers-odd-I-see (We've got to get Obama out of the White House on Nov. 6, 2012)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

” I am SO looking forward to the day when the five SCOTUS justices with sense publically bitch-slap this miserable effing weasel POS.”
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It’s supposed to happen in June; next month.


44 posted on 05/04/2012 7:21:38 PM PDT by Homers-odd-I-see (We've got to get Obama out of the White House on Nov. 6, 2012)
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To: SERKIT

Since he grew up in Chicago, the capital of Illinois,
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Chicago is NOT the capitol of IL. Springfield is the capitol.


45 posted on 05/04/2012 7:21:48 PM PDT by Homers-odd-I-see (We've got to get Obama out of the White House on Nov. 6, 2012)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’ll bet Diana Ross and Mary Wilson told Obama where to go.


46 posted on 05/04/2012 7:27:22 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Free ThinkerNY

How can he file additional papers with the Court after the case has been submitted? Can the other side respond to this? The Court should not even read this submission otherwise.

And this has nothing to do with the case. A problem with Medicare is not for the Court to correct but for the legislature to pass legislation to address.

This is absurd.


47 posted on 05/04/2012 7:38:09 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Noob1999

Count on nothing from the Republicans. They’re too easily browbeaten into timidity to be of any good.


48 posted on 05/04/2012 7:44:12 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

In a sane world, the supreme court would warn baraq not to f with them. In legal terms of course.

just sayin.


49 posted on 05/04/2012 7:50:26 PM PDT by Texas resident (Hunkered Down)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

IIRC, Medicare was operating just fine before obammacare, so why would if be any different if obamamcare was removed? It won’t! Just more scare tactics to force the USSC to vote obamma’s way.


50 posted on 05/04/2012 8:21:23 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So he is trying to sow up the Medicare vote just like he did the female vote.


51 posted on 05/04/2012 8:29:01 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

SCOTUS needs to send a letter back to the Kenyan guy telling him to go take a flying leap at a rolling donut.


52 posted on 05/04/2012 8:41:55 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life. - Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Are we still a representative republic with three co-equal branches of government that check-and-balance each other, or are we now a third-world dictatorship?


We’re a thoroughly corrupt Oligarchy. Among many other things.


53 posted on 05/04/2012 8:49:51 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Homers-odd-I-see

I am from Illinois. I know Barry didn’t grow up in Chicago, and I also know the capitol. But since I am a product of Ill-Annoy public schools, I how need to trust the NATO spokeslady who claims Barry grew up in Chicago, and that Chicago is our capitol. We need to submit to their version of the facts. C’mon..


54 posted on 05/04/2012 8:56:43 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Really? But NATO says Chicago is the capitol. We all know the capitol of Madiganistan is Quinnoccio’s Puppet Village aka Springpatch.


55 posted on 05/04/2012 9:02:54 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Republican Wildcat

” And this has nothing to do with the case. A problem with Medicare is not for the Court to correct but for the legislature to pass legislation to address.

This is absurd.”

They are desperate, that’s all.


56 posted on 05/04/2012 9:14:50 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Another day in Obamaland.


57 posted on 05/04/2012 9:38:07 PM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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To: biggredd1
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58 posted on 05/04/2012 10:23:43 PM PDT by dragonblustar (PETA. President Eating Tasty Animals)
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To: fwdude

“Obama Warns Supremes: Don’t Overturn Healthcare Reform”

This is Swahili for: Obama warns voters: don’t overturn me.


59 posted on 05/04/2012 11:19:30 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Moorings; fwdude

How many Americans still leave the care of their elderly/infirm in the hands of the state (read: state workers)?

The Indians in Kenya/Uganda learned the hard way; take them yourselves.


60 posted on 05/04/2012 11:23:52 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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