A: When it’s uttered by a man who hasn’t studied history, doesn’t understand the nature of man, eschews the foundational principles of the country he longs to “fundamentally tranform,” and who views the world as his to reconfigure until it at long last matches the one he envisions — a man who has been enabled in that narcissistic delusion his entire adult life by those who have groomed him and trained him like a performing seal, one that, because it receives the applause of Sea World tourists, believes itself to be in charge of the show.
Time for someone to point a mirror at this trained seal. Because who knows? Maybe if he catches a glimpse of himself begging for smelt in a pointy birthday cap and little seal tutu he’ll be less likely to take himself so damn seriously.
I detect a faint bit of mockery in the Open Letter.
“Mr. President? There’s a Señor Montoya on the phone for you, he said something about the meaning of ‘unprecedented’? Will you take the call?”
I’m beginning to believe the President goes for the big obvious lie, because a baldfaced whopper from the President tends to stun people into disbelief.
Or, President Obama is stupid enough to believe that if he says it, it must be true.
I admit, could go either way.
Looks to me as though Barry has himself caught in a trap of his own making, much like the antisemite dweeb Marc Elliot L’Hommedieu. Backing and filling only serves to bury himself further under his stupidity and lies.
There goes O, blowing all the dog whistles to rally the rabids
“Trained seal”.
Seal is black. He sang Kiss From a Rose.
= Racist.
Oooh. That wasn’t exactly smart, Mr. President.
As with the University of Oregon below, for the progressive mind the future is fixed. The past must bend to adjust the present to be on course to that fixed point hanging out there in time.
As far as the ACA goes, it might be argued a law like unto it has never been overturned by the Supreme Court insofar as a law like unto it has never been passed to begin with. Is there another more egregiously and willfully unconstitutional? It’s hard to come up with one.
“… At least since the 30’s.”
You mean, back when FDR scared the Supreme Court into compliance with all his wishes and made himself the de-facto dictator of the US?
Good times.
When it’s uttered by a man who hasn’t studied history,
Oh, he knows damn good and well what it means to compare a law against enumerated powers and decide whether the law passes muster, and he knows that SCOTUS strikes down laws all the time.
He just finds it rhetorically inconvenient to demonstrate that knowledge, so he concocts a narrative better suited to his narcissistic desires, using language to say not what he believes to be true but what he believes to be useful.
Just as Alinsky prescribed.
He has really exceeded my expectations. I mean, I knew he was a ideologue, but he has really doubled-down on the fascism.
It’s breathtaking.
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He has really exceeded my expectations.
Not mine. I knew who and what he was from the off, and I knew he would push as hard and as far as he thought he could get away with.
Same here, di. Did the man not look deranged on the teevee this morning?
Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?
You mean, back when FDR scared the Supreme Court into compliance with all his wishes and made himself the de-facto dictator of the US?
And threw the Japanese into prison camps.
I figure with the new-found danger posed by white-Hispanics, that’ll be floated for them any minute now.
Now, now Visigoths, no need for your toe-hair to curl. All he meant was that there’s no precedent for overturning one of the bills he’s signed into law, that’s all.
The 5th Circuit is not amused:
Wow. Never heard of such a thing Pablo, you?
Let the games begin! This walk-back ought to be epic.
I think the next “Miss Me Yet?” billboard could feature Jimmy Carter.
Nope, new to me, sdferr. They’re not amused, but I sure am.
Steven Hayward, Could the Supreme Court Take a Mulligan?:
Pablo, that is a jaw dropping link.
Finally, a branch of the government is throwing down the gauntlet. Not only that, CBS is actually reporting on the news.
Pablo and sdferr – Fucking remarkable, no?
It’s astounding and practically inevitable all at the same time JD. I fear what else may appear to be inevitable.
Dang! I wonder if this could be a campaign issue? And I wonder if Newt will jump in on this since he was at one point talking about Congress whipping bad judges. Obama needs to go sink back into the muck of the Chicago political mire.
OUCH! That’s going to leave a mark, I hope. Time for a musical rendition of “Here’s To You, Mr. Constitutional Law Lecturer!”. Who’s got the karaoke mic?
http://budlight.whipnet.com/
I was just popping in to drop Pablo’s link. The reporter neglected to mention the judge finished with and get your shine box.
levin opens his show with the 5th circuit
Let’s hope for the peace of the nation another Dr. Carl Weiss doesn’t become such an inevitability.
thanks for the history lesson – Dr. Carl Weiss
Obama cites Lochner, would do better to keep his ignorant yap shut.
Joel Pollack on Obama on Lochner via Derrick Bell.
JHoward hits the real crux of the issue. If you want the Supremes to rule your way what can you possibly gain by antagonizing them? That’s either astonishingly stupid or too clever by half.
I suppose you could come up with several scenarios where double-dog-daring the Supremes to overthrow his signature legislation might make sense. He wants to run against a do-nothing Congress and an activist court. He knows that ObamaCare is an albatross around his neck and wants it cut loose now so he doesn’t have to defend it through to the election. Etc., etc.
But do you really think Obama is that clever? Remember, he was antagonizing the Supremes right out of the chute, calling them out in his 2010 SOTU address. I’ll argue that this isn’t brilliant statecraft, it’s blind arrogance.
I’m hoping the Supremes stick it right up his kazoo and rule to overturn only the mandate, leaving the rest to stand as a rickety unsalvageable mess, not just an albatross, but a rotting bird hung around his neck like a chicken-killing dog.
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Swen, the problem is that one of the supremes is a radical leftist weirdo who wants to use other countries’ constitutions, and any cool sounding manifestos she might see mentioned in a Mother Jones article, to rule US laws unconstitutional and then rewrite them from the bench. Three more are left-machine loyalist hacks with their rubber stamps ready to go. The tie breaker (Kennedy) is a “creative type” who wants to be liked and to make a difference for the children much as Sandra Day O’Conner did.
So we might STILL be boned on Obama care.
At one point the court (similarly balanced) ruled McCain/Feingold fair merely because Bush signed it while assuming that the Supremes would knock it down.
They ruled that a city, state. county, or town can grab your property through use of immanent domain law for “the use of the public good” and then sell it to another richer private citizen or corporation for their use simply because they will be paying more property taxes than you. They did this because of a precedent set by a prior case. The judge who broke the tie (in a panel) in the case that set the precedent later said to the plaintiff that if he had had all the facts at the time, he would not have ruled as he did.
The SC have screwed us before and they’ll screw us again whenever they feel like it.