Red State: Obama’s Continuing Assault on the Law, History, and Facts

[Patricia M. McBride]

In the event you have not been following this, Obama has been forced to do a walk back on his comments about the supreme court (thank goodness), because a very brave federal judge down in Texas stood up and held this administration accountable for their comments.  But the supreme court attack isn't the only bad information the administration has put out; it is becoming a daily fairy tale, and we all have to wonder how long Obama will remain credible if it continues on the current scale?

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Posted by Leon H. Wolf

Wednesday, April 4th

In the wake of President Obama’s moronic and widely-lampooned comments on judicial review yesterday, President Obama offered the following lame (and incorrect) walkback today:

THE PRESIDENT:  Well, first of all, let me be very specific. We have not seen a Court overturn a law that was passed by Congress on a economic issue, like health care, that I think most people would clearly consider commerce — a law like that has not been overturned at least since Lochner.  Right?  So we’re going back to the ’30s, pre New Deal.

And the point I was making is that the Supreme Court is the final say on our Constitution and our laws, and all of us have to respect it, but it’s precisely because of that extraordinary power that the Court has traditionally exercised significant restraint and deference to our duly elected legislature, our Congress.  And so the burden is on those who would overturn a law like this.

The President, of course, is once again either displaying complete ignorance or cynical hackery. Our federal Congress, per the constitution, is a Congress of enumerated powers. It may only do the things which it is authorized to do under Article 1, Section 8. The onus is always on Congress to demonstrate that its actions have fallen within one of its enumerated powers, not on a person challenging an act of Congress to demonstrate that Congress has acted without those powers. However, more importantly, as Powerline pointed out, Obama has once again also gotten his history wrong:

Read more here:  http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2012/04/04/obamas-continuing-as...

[Patricia M. McBride]

Let's hope the supreme court says it isn't constitutional and so many parts aren't that it is going to just rule to eliminate the whole thing and let congress start over.  This is not a federal government issue.  This is a state's issue and I am so sick of the federal government getting their sticky fingers on more stuff and messin it up.  The reason we are in the mess we are in is because FDR got involved in things the federal government shouldn't do, and long ago they realized the money wasn't there and what money there was these fools long ago spent on something else.  No they want the grand daddy of all boon doggles and hope above hope the supreme court tosses it.  Free market solutions please!