ACA Supreme Court Tuesday

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Oh, please: the Republican party has been talking directly about specific Supreme Court cases and threatening/discussing "activist judges" for years.

Except, of course, when those judges rule to stop vote counting in Bush v. Gore, and decide a presidential race opposite to the popular vote result.

What Obama said is nothing new, even for a president. It's simply the timing.

The conservative (non-Thomas) Supreme Court judges were, on the bench, talking about political considerations of overturning the ACA. Political!

That shocked long-time Supreme Court watchers. I didn't see much outrage over that departure from convention in the media, any comments on those judges behaviour.

Good grief - two extremely conservative "movement leader" appellate court federal judges have already ruled the entirely of the ACA constitutional. The Supremes, of course, will do what they wish.

I cannot believe the double standard and absolutely ridiculous attacks this president has been subjected to by his political enemies. That is what is unprecedented.

Especially a nonsensical lower-court judge requiring "three pages single spaced" from Eric Holder. God save this country.

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I laughed:

Well, earlier today, the panel—really, Republican judicial ppointee Jerry Smith—got the letter it wanted (PDF). And speaking as a lawyer, it's a painfully embarrassing read. As I expected, it's simply a recitation of the most basic tenets of constitutional law that get taught in the first year of law school. It's like explaining band-aids to doctors.

Smith, a notorious partisan hack, pretty much asked the Department of Justice to scrawl "Marbury v. Madison" 50 times on the blackboard, and that's exactly what they did.

But the last word will go to Attorney General Eric Holder, who did the menschy thing and signed the letter himself, rather than making the DoJ line attorney who was the target of Smith's ire take any more incoming fire. Holder's final paragraph reads, in its entirety:

Whether you agree with that or not, it doesn't matter. There's just nothing Smith can do. He can sputter all he likes, he can go to bed every night convinced Eric Holder is mocking him, and he can even continue to make life miserable for the Dept. of Justice lawyers who are appearing before him. But if he was trying to show up the president, he failed—badly.

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http://news.yahoo.com/illinois-gover...184232040.html



and obamacare looks to add tens of millions more to medicaid rolls. then what will rein in spending that is already too high?

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Originally Posted by Danzig

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and obamacare looks to add tens of millions more to medicaid rolls. then what will rein in spending that is already too high?

Two ways to rein in spending on the poor, sick and needy:

1) Don't do it
2) Reform the system

I'll stick with Option 2, thanks. We are not a country of monsters, no matter how many politicians are publicly taking that stand.