According to one of the more stellar White House spokes-persons to come along in quite some time, Jay "I'm a freakin Moron" Carney, those of us who chose to interpret Barry "Almighty's" recent comments directed at the Supreme Court as being rather controversial, were, quite simply, mistaken. Because what Barry said was actually "the reverse of intimidation." Gee, how silly of us. Of course, they were just harmless comments expressed by a well intentioned president. At least that's what this dim bulb told reporters on Wednesday. Barry was "simply making an observation about precedent and the fact that he expects the court to adhere to that precedent," Carney said. Is that not some of the lamest BS you've ever heard? I mean, really, just how stupid are we, the American people, perceived to be by this group of freakin psychopaths? Here we have a president, who has once again seen fit, and who apparently thinks it's perfectly acceptable behavior, to malign the Supreme Court.
Our old buddy Jay went on to say, "What the president said both yesterday (Tuesday) and the day before -- well, what he did was make an unremarkable observation about 80 years of Supreme Court history -- the fact that since the Lochner era of the Court, since the 1930s, the Supreme Court has, without exception, deferred to Congress when it comes to Congress’s authority to pass legislation, to regulate matters of national economic importance such as health care." Adding, "That is an observation and not a particularly remarkable one. It is a statement of fact. And he also expressed his faith that the Supreme Court would keep to that 85-year history of judicial precedent, and uphold the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act." Well there's just one thing wrong with that little theory. And that is, there is nothing about the so-called Affordable Care Act, least of all the individual mandate, that can be considered as being even remotely constitutional.
I'm sure most of us, at least those of us who have been paying attention, wondered how the topic even came up as it did on Monday when Barry proceeded to express confidence "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." Shortly thereafter there was mention made that there might have been a leak from one of Barry's recently appointed justices that provided to him news that maybe wasn't so good. Hence his hurrying to fire a shot over the bow of the Court courtesy of his comment reminding "conservative commentators that for years, what we’ve heard is the biggest problem on the bench is judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint. For an unelected group of people to somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law is a good example of that, and I’m pretty sure this court will recognize that and not take that step.” The absolute arrogance of this guy.
Barry's comments coming as the did, from a former constitutional law instructor, although Barry has been described as being professor it is my understanding that he never actually attained that designation, amazed many people, some of whom accused Barry of trying to intimidate the justices ahead of their ruling on Barry's signature legislation. Others flatly rejected the notion that the Supreme Court would be doing something considered as being "unprecedented" or "extraordinary" in overturning a law that was only marginally passed by Congress and that is so obviously unconstitutional. The court's authority to conduct "judicial review" was established in 1803 in the case Marbury v. Madison. One reporter, from Fox News, pointed out Barry's reference to a law "passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress," and how that characterization was a bit of a stretch reminding Carney that the health care law passed the House by a mere five votes, 219-212 with not a single Republican voting for it.
I would tend to agree with Rush Limbaugh when he says that Barry knew full well what he was saying and how he meant his words to be taken. Limbaugh believes Barry is doing nothing more than to try to prepare his supporters, the "stupid" ones, for the possibility that the Supreme Court will take their health care away, and if it does so, the court somehow will be breaking precedent and engaging in judicial activism. "Let's be perfectly clear," Limbaugh said on Wednesday's show, "He (Obama) knows what he's doing. He knows he was lying. He knows about judicial review. He knows that the Supreme Court has thrown out many laws. He knows all this. People that have never gone to law school know this. It's absurd, folks, to think that he doesn't know this. His audience, for those comments that he's made the last two days on Obamacare and the Supreme Court, is the ignorant population of America who he wants to believe that the court is going to do something it's never done before." Here! Here!
Also this past Wednesday, Jay "The Moron" Carney explained that Barry "did not suggest -- did not mean and did not suggest -- that...it would be unprecedented for the Court to rule that a law was unconstitutional. That's what the Supreme Court is there to do." Jay added, "But it has, under the Commerce Clause, deferred to Congress's authority in matters of national economic importance." Carney said it is clear that Barry was talking about cases dealing with the Commerce Clause that "involve Congress passing legislation to deal with issues of national economic importance -- national economic matters like health insurance, which is clearly a national economic issue. That's what he was referring to." Oh really? Clear to whom exactly? Because what Barry said certainly wasn't all that clear to most of us who were actually listening. But I gotta give old Jay an 'A' for creativity, that was some pretty good spin even though it was nothing but pure bullsh!t, and everybody knows it, especially Jay.
Carney said Barry clarified his Supreme Court comments on Tuesday "only because a handful of people didn't seem to understand what he was referring to: "Of course, he was referring to the fact that it would be unprecedented in the modern era of the Supreme Court, since the New Deal era, for the Supreme Court to overturn legislation passed by Congress designed to regulate and deal with a national economic -- a matter of national economic importance like our health care system." Of course! Jay went on, "That is a fact. Since the Lochner era, which ended when the Court began to defer to Congress on New Deal legislation, the Supreme Court has not done that, has not broken the precedent set there. And that's a number of years now. That's what would be unprecedented about it." Is anyone really buying this line of bullsh!t? Granted, the parasites among us, those who make up one of the primary Democrat constituencies, will eat this stuff up, if for no other reason than they are terminally ignorant.
So Jay describes Barry's remarks as being nothing more than a harmless and rather unremarkable observation. And he says that those of us seeing it as an attempt to intimidate or to threaten the Court are simply mistaken, either because of our own political opposition to this president or our dislike of him. So once again it's all about us. I'm surprised Jay didn't simply come out and accuse us all of being racist. But knowing as we do how Barry's remarks are always very well scripted, how could we come to any other conclusion? Because in this particular instance, just like every other, he knew exactly what he was saying, and exactly how he intended his words to be taken. All this other superfluous crap is just that, crap. Crap meant to be diversionary tactic and nothing more. And I think it very safe to say that between now and when the decision is finally made public we can expect a lot more of this caliber of rhetoric. Because this is Chicago thug style of politics that Barry practices. He sees himself as being above how it is that our Constitutional Republic is designed to work.
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