Support for Obamacare Hits New Low as Court Ruling Against Federal Mandate to Purchase Insurance Unconstitutional

Obamacare fails in the courts and with “We the People” …

It is no surprise that on the day that on the very day that Virgina U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled that a key provision of the nation’s sweeping health-care overhaul is unconstitutional, it is no coincidence that support for Obamacare is at a new low.

In a 42-page opinion, Hudson said the provision of the law that requires most individuals to get insurance or pay a fine by 2014 is an unprecedented expansion of federal power that cannot be supported by Congress’s power to regulate interstate trade.

“Neither the Supreme Court nor any federal circuit court of appeals has extended Commerce Clause powers to compel an individual to involuntarily enter the stream of commerce by purchasing a commodity in the private market,” he wrote. “In doing so, enactment of the [individual mandate] exceeds the Commerce Clause powers vested in Congress under Article I [of the Constitution.]

The overreaching government health care plan also finds itself with a new low in support. A news  ABC News/Washington Post poll finds support for the landmark legislation at a new low at 43% in favor and 52% opposed. It was said by Obama and the Democrats that the people would learn to like Obamacare. How wrong they were.

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Barack Obama to Announce Elena Kagan as SCOTUS Nominee … Elections Have Serious Consequnces

NBC News is reporting that President Barack Obama will choose  solicitor general Elena Kagan and former Harvard Law School Dean as the next Supreme Court Justice nominee to replace the retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.

President Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, positioning the court to have three female justices for the first time, NBC News reported late Sunday.

Kagan served as the Dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009. She was widely viewed as a front-runner when Obama was considering candidates for a Supreme Court opening last year, but the president ultimately chose Sonia Sotomayor for the job.

My what a difference a year makes. As the MSM and WH champion Kagan as a moderate, just one year ago when Kagan was on the short list for the SCOTUS that ultimately went to Sonia Sotomayor, Michelle Malkin described her as follows:

… Dean Kagan has taken positions that are disturbingly out of the mainstream. For example, driven by her view that the “don’t ask; don’t tell” policy adopted by a Democrat Congress and President Clinton is “a profound wrong–a moral injustice of the first order,” she argued that it violates the First Amendment for the United States to withhold funds from colleges that ban the military from recruiting on campus. The Supreme Court unanimously rejected this view …

Check out the C-SPAN videos linked to by Tammy Bruce.

WOW, seems to be several references as to whether Kagan is a Gay/Lesbian … “not that there is any thing wrong with that”.

Go the the SCOTUS blog for much more back ground

The 50 year old Kagan, if confirmed which by all accounts seems to be a yes based on past confirmations, will be serving in the SCOTUS for decades to come. Yes America, elections do have consequences as the most liberal President in the history of the United States is about to  nominate a second justice to the  SCOTUS and a third can’t be too far away.

Even more at the SCOTUS blog here.

Chief Justice John Roberts Says Obama’s State of the Union Criticism of SCOTUS

Revenge of the Jedi …

Supreme Court Chief Justice of the United States  John Roberts shot back at President Barack Hussein Obama’s criticism of the court’s decision striking down some campaign finance reform laws during the Obama’s  State of the Union.  During a Q & A session at the University of Alabama law school, Roberts responded to a student’s question regarding Obama’s rebuke of the SCOTUS decision.

Justice Roberts stated that anyone was free to criticize the court; however it was the political setting and the image of the members of one branch of government standing up, surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering. All this while the SCOTUS according the requirements of protocol had to  sit there expressionless. Justice Roberts said,  “I think is very troubling.” Might we also add that it was only one party of another branch of government doing this in lock step with Obama’s urging.

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President Obama’s State of the Union address was “very troubling” and the annual speech has “degenerated to a political pep rally.”

Obama chided the court, with the justices seated before him in their black robes, for its decision on a campaign finance case.

Responding to a University of Alabama law student’s question, Roberts said anyone was free to criticize the court, and some have an obligation to do so because of their positions.

“So I have no problems with that,” he said. “On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances and the decorum.

“The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the court — according the requirements of protocol — has to sit there expressionless, I think is very troubling.”

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Troubling indeed and a pattern of behavior with President Barack  Obama. This President was elected to change the tome on Washington, DC and how things were done. Obama was to reach across the aisle and create a more collegial atmosphere in DC and govern in a bipartisan manner under the banner of “Hope & Change” … So he said during the campaign.

All The One has done for his rhetoric is bring Chicago-style politics to the White House. Obama is the MOST PARTISAN PRESIDENT in the modern era.  The One has attacked Republican members of the House and Senate and acted  in such a partisan manner that he even went after the SCOTUS in a venue that was completely uncalled for an inappropriate.  Let alone, Obama got the legal case wrong.

From Hot Air comes the response from White House spokesman Gibbs:

Surely you weren’t expecting an apology from this tool.

Asked for comment, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said, “What is troubling is that this decision opened the floodgates for corporations and special interests to pour money into elections – drowning out the voices of average Americans.”

Gibbs continued, saying, “the President has long been committed to reducing the undue influence of special interests and their lobbyists over government. That is why he spoke out to condemn the decision and is working with Congress on a legislative response.”

Roberts would later say at the UA Law School that justices are not required to attend the SOTU but have traditionally done so as a sign of mutual respect for the president and legislative branch. Look for there to be 5 empty seats at Obama’s next State of the Union in 2011, the missing SCOTUS formation as a mutual sign of respect for this President. Respect is a two way street Mr. President.

Barack Obama Thumbs his Nose at Separation of Powers and Insults the SCOTUS … Low Rent and No Class

DEMOCRAT HYPOCRITES!!!

The Audacity of Dope, A disrespectful and defiant President insults the SCOTUS …

Wonder why America is disenchanted with Barack Obama and his so called Hope & Change.  Talk about bad form … and this President and his fellow Democrat minions go upset when  Rep. Joe Wilson R-(SC) said, “You Lie”.  Barack Obama lectured the Congress and America during his State of the Union Speech on civility and then pulled this stunt?

It almost defies logic, reason and respect; however, Barack Hussein Obama did the unthinkable during his first State of the Union Speech and tried to intimidate the Supreme Court of the United States.

So much for separation of powers, but Obama thinks he is above everything.

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Justice Alito can be seen saying “Not True”

NRO shows that Justice Alito was correct in his “not true” comment and Obama engaged in demogoguery of the worst kind,

With the SCOTUS in plain sight of Barack Obama, the One made the following classless and disgraceful comment by insulting the SCOTUS and having his fellow Democrat lapdogs stand clapping and cheering furthering the insult and  thumbing their noses at the separation of powers.

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Obama Vows to Fight SCOTUS Decision on Free Speech Corp Campaign Money … But People Agree with the Courts

The United States Supreme Court handed down its decision on a key part of McCain-Feingold and corporate donations being considered free speech.

Once again it would appear that President Barack Obama is not only on the wrong side of the American Public, but the Supreme Court of the United States.  In his weekly radio address, Obama lashed out against the SCOTUS that reversed campaign finance laws stating that they were considered free speech. However, should the United States be concerned when a sitting President starts threatening the highest court in the land?

After a week of setbacks for Democrats and progressive causes, President Barack Obama took to the airwaves this morning to attack the Thursday Supreme Court decision that lifted restrictions on corporate spending in elections, sounding a populist alarm and vowing to work with Congress to formulate some sort of legislative response.

Obama states he is going to fight for the American people, yet the American Public in a recent Gallup Poll agree with the SCOTUS that Campaign Money Is “Free Speech.” 55% of Americans agree that corporate and union donations should be the same as individual donations while only 39% disagree. This is also not a Repulican or Democrat issue as 62% and 64% respectively agree that corporate/union donations should be treated the same as individual donations.

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