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Second, It is the Supreme Court's responsibility to strike down any laws it deems unconstitutional. Whether or not it is popular.
I fully expect O to disband the SC on some wild ass idea he has of 'his' Constitutional authority. He thinks striking down the healthcare law is an affront to 'his' legacy legislation.
He already openly shows contempt towards the other branch of government.
His attitude towards this country and it's people however thinly veiled is dangerous to the survival of America.
We are are looking at 20 years of this idiot should he get his wish. And we know what that is.
A Supreme Court Justice has life tenure. They cannot be ousted unless there is severe reasoning. The POTUS cannot "bully" a Supreme Court Justice. A Justice is a Justice until they die, retire or are found to have besmirched the role they are in.
Please support that claim, with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back explaining what each one is.
Obama's guy did an awful job trying to defend it last week. If they some how rule in favor of it, I cant wait to see the write ups from the court on it. Because thus far, ive not heard one good reason why it should be declared Constitutional. The liberal judges will say yes no matter what, and Ill still like to see how the hell they come up with their conclusion even if its defeated. We know they are going to vote for it.
Repealing the 18th amendment was a good thing, unless you enjoy huge government, religious fanatic laws. FDR also is about as far away from fascism as it gets. On the contrary, he saved the world from fascist tyranny.
Yeah as long as you don't mind citizens being interned and your gold confiscated by the government.
The same president who's federal courts are telling states they cannot enforce legally passed legislation concerning illegal aliens, and voting laws, is telling the highest court in the nation, they cannot overturn the illegal obamacare?
Obama could say the sky was blue and you guys would claim he was an arrogant, bully fascist
He gave a strong, confident statement about the healthcare law he got passed.
What did you guys expect him to say? That he thinks the SC will/should strike it down????
The SC will decide how they decide. Cheerleaders on BOTH sides of the argument are making predictions and statements in support or contemporary of the law. What President Obama said is no different.
Interesting to me is that if this is struck down, we get closer to the liberal dream of single payer health care. This larded law is basically built to protect he health insurance industry. We either proceed with the current system without the mandate, which would devastate the industry, or we go back to the single payer model of socialized health care, which the people want, but the GOP does not.
Frankly, I am all in for the single payer model. Plenty of other successful countries do it, and it takes a heavy burden off their companies. So, the SCOTUS is basically saying the private model suggested by the GOP in the 1990s, and adopted by Obama with modifications, is not tenable. Fine. Time to join the rest of the civilized world with single payer.
I think the SCOTUS is smart enough to see these consequences, and so will not rule against it. It is the biggest boon to the health insurance industry in our history. Now that I think of it, I hope they do turn it down!
*** As an aside, I enjoyed listening to the justices debate this. It is a very important question for our country, and it is cool to have these discussion. That is, if people are really thinking about the implications of this issue.
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