Since every other constitutional-law scholar had been interviewed about last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments on the health care law, the Affordable Care Act, President Obama - himself a former professor - was unable to hold back. His comments on the case were a pointed warning to the Court that invalidating his signature piece of legislation would be an “unprecedented, extraordinary’’ step of judicial activism. Even if so, Obama should have remained silent.
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since when has the incompetent and divisive huckster currently occupying the oval office been concerned about the HIGH ROAD? ma
The latest Presidential rant against the Supreme Court is a reminder of his first demagogic outburst against the Court, during his State of the Union Address and regarding the Citizens United decision. Face it, Globe. The only opinion he tolerates is his own. When anyone disagrees he will sulk, and pout at first. Then he asks the existential question, "What would Saul do? Saul's response would be: pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it." And that is how our President rolls. From Joe the Plumber, the Republicans, the Israelis, Red States, the Supreme Court, it all boils down to: What would Saul do? WWSD for short. High road? Dream on.
Once again, this president has taken the path of a man clearly unable to display presidential timbre. He needs to grow up, and act like a chief executive. The Globe has repeated a favorite myth about this president-he was never a law professor. He was an "instructor", which is a non tenure track, usually part time job, teaching a class.
There is no excuse for bad behavior.
Obama, unleashed for a second term, would act like a dictator, not a President. Executive orders, unelected czars, federal agencies all have been operating independently. No Congressional participation has been solicited or desired by this President except for his initial health blunder now facing overturn by the court. His enmity toward the Supreme Court blisters his statements as he views any check or balance of his power as a personal insult. He and his attorney general, sworn to uphold the Constitution and the law, uphold no laws they consider detrimental to their political philosphy.
Hospitals, which must provide care by law regardless of the patient's ability to pay, will not be burdened with uninsured people unable to pay. This, and all the other benefits of the Affordable Care Act, are not possible without requiring that we all have insurance.
Let's see. According to The Globe, the Supreme Court Justices took their initial vote on the Constitutionality of the Affordable Health Care Act last Friday. (see: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2012/03/29/supreme-court-justices-vote-today-health-care-case/o1053Mrj2ad8pY4nh5AetO/story.html ) The following Monday, the President criticizes the Supreme Court, warning direly that they are an "unelected group of people" seeking to "overturn a duly constituted and passed law". Is it possible the someone may have leaked the results of Friday's vote to the President?
Obama is an even worse Con Law expert than President
Globe - how about an analysis that shows what he is saying is a LIE?
Great piece Boston Globe. If you write more honest pieces like this, the readers will pay for subscriptions.
What is especially egregious about President Obama's comments regarding the Supreme Court is that it is a virtual certainty that, if and when the Defense of Marriage Act is up for Supreme Court review--and Act that truly was passed by large Congressionla bi-partisan majorities and signed into law by President Clinton--President Obama will take exactly the opposite position--demanding that the Court overturn the law. This is pure politics, and it is a very disappointing example of the same.
it's only the supreme court, no big deal. Someone should have taught President Obama that you get farther with sugar than vinegar, he sounded very arrogant.