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Really, Mr. President, you don't understand how an "unelected" group of people can strike down a bill? Ever heard of Separation of Powers or checks and balances? You can't govern by fiat, Mr. Obama.
His words, spoken in the presence of foreign leaders no less, were so disrespectful to the Supreme Court Justices and the entire American Governmental system. How arrogant of him, to warn the Justices. How disrespectful of him to refer to them as a group of "unelected people." And how about the real group of "unelected" people who wrote the darn thing? Additionally, what he said, was just wrong. This was not overwhelmingly approved by congress. It barely passed. And, in case our POTUS forgot, its not up to him to decide what is "Constitutional." That IS the job of the Supreme Court Justices, whom he seems to want to demean.
"The president spoke at length about the case at a joint press conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada. The president, adopting what he described as the language of conservatives who fret about judicial activism, questioned how an "unelected group of people" could overturn a law approved by Congress."
"I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress," Obama said..."I'm confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld," Obama said, describing the law as "constitutional."
To uphold the Constitution is not being an activist.
That's what I thought, too.
I always considered "judicial activism" as creating law that did not previously exist as in the Roe v Wade decision. Overturning an existing law by declaring it unconstitutional is the exact opposite.
We live in a topsy turvy world today. Great masses of people have been successfully "reeducated" and I'm way behind the times.
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?
We don't need "affordable health insurance". We need affordable health CARE. We don't need $300/mo insurance with $50 Dr. office co-pays. We need plain $50 Dr. visits.
Insurance shouldn't be for day to day medical care. It should be for EMERGENCIES only. People forget that, that's where the problems really lie.
Except that, as they say, that horse is out of the barn.
Try reforming health care back to the way it was. The insurance lobbyists are too strong. We will never have $50 doctor visits again, either. My last visit, for a sore throat with no lab tests was $176.00.
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