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The Brown victory over Coakley has reignited an interest in politics for me; I don't know how long it will last. For the first time in many years, I watched the SOTU instead of American Idol.
One part that struck me was this surreal scene in which the POTUS shames the Supreme Court in front of the entire audience:
Edit: Here's Randy Barnett's take:
In the history of the State of the Union has any President ever called out the Supreme Court by name, and egged on the Congress to jeer a Supreme Court decision, while the Justices were seated politely before him surrounded by hundreds Congressmen? To call upon the Congress to countermand (somehow) by statute a constitutional decision, indeed a decision applying the First Amendment? What can this possibly accomplish besides alienating Justice Kennedy who wrote the opinion being attacked. Contrary to what we heard during the last administration, the Court may certainly be the object of presidential criticism without posing any threat to its independence. But this was a truly shocking lack of decorum and disrespect towards the Supreme Court for which an apology is in order. A new tone indeed.
When people begin to speak with, "No offense, but..." what they actually intend to say is offensive. When Obama says, "With all due deference to separation of powers...." what he actually means is, "Screw this separation of powers stuff."
Every time I listen to Obama, he speaks as if the Presidency is an Emperorship.
More evidence that Obama is
More evidence that Obama is just not all that smart. As Instapundit writes:
Well, not exactly because of his limited experience. Obama has at least as much experience as Instapundit and yet Instapundit gets it. Instapundit is right that what Obama said is not smart. He's wrong about why Obama said it. Not because he lacks experience, but because he hasn't learned from it.
Astonishing!
Why can't this President realize that the doctrine of Separation of
Roe v Wade.
Powers means a President should never criticize a Supreme Court decision?
Roe v. Wade.
Indeed, for a President to exercise his free-speech rights and do so
Roe v. Wade.
would be the worst form of tyranny imaginable.
Roe v Wade was decided in
Roe v Wade was decided in 1973. I don't know the facts myself, 1973 being a bit before my time, but I will take your word for it that President Nixon criticized the decision. While you may be right that Obama did what Nixon did (and one wonders what other parallels there may yet lie between Obama and Nixon), I think that a comparison with Nixon is perhaps not exactly strong evidence in favor of Obama's behavior.
Whoops, I was a bit too
Whoops, I was a bit too hasty in taking the word of nobody really. From Wikipedia:
So, no, in fact Nixon agreed with the decision, at least if the unborn baby was of mixed race.
I too watched the speech for
I too watched the speech for the first time in years, although that's mostly because my current roommate is more into politics than me. Two completely trivial observations:
Was the Constitution designed to give the SC the final say
in all legal matters or did Adams and the rest screw up?
You all pleased that the ChiComs can now legally buy our Congress with our trillion dollars by using American companies which they own?
You all pleased that the
I know I am.
I cant wait for the Chinese Repo men to show up.
At least he didn't make an FDR out of himself
At least he didn't pull an FDR and have their legs broken.
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