Just as a cornered badger will lash out, Obama, clearly on the ropes, lashed out at the Supreme Court on Monday. That is what the Court does -- it overturns unconstitutional laws passed by Congress. Even AP Chairman Dean Singleton pointed this out in a question at the luncheon.
Also, there was never a "strong majority" or the Democrats would not have had to use parliamentary tricks and downright conniving to pass the bill. A strong majority would mean the bill sailed through.
"We have not seen a Court overturn a law that was passed by Congress on an economic issue, like health care, that I think most people would clearly consider commerce -- a law like that has not been overturned at least since Lochner. Right? So we're going back to the '30s, pre New Deal," Obama said.
This from a self-proclaimed constitutional professor...
In that last bit, he was responding to a questioner who had disputed his suggestion that a ruling against the law would be "unprecedented." But the questioner accurately pointed out "that's exactly what the court has done through it's entire existence."
The piece goes on to explain that Lochner refers to "a 1905 case dealing with working hours of a baker and the attempt to regulate them under the guise of health," but points out Obama's incorrect assertions:
The Supreme Court has ruled on several commerce-related issues "since Lochner," where government tried to use the commerce clause to expand its powers, including Wickard v Filburn (1942), United States v Lopez (1995) and United States v Morrison (2000), to name a few.
Finally, this astounding commentary concludes that the 'dumbest thing' that Obama said at the luncheon was "The burden is on those that would overturn a law like this," which directly conflicts several Amendments of the Constitution.
The Fifth, Ninth and 14th amendments ensure the burden of proof falls on the government when taking liberty or property from a citizen. Obamacare does both.
Then, as progressives always do when they have no real argument, Obama turned to emotion to justify the taking of our rights, just as they did while ramming the bill through Congress.
While I do agree that was pretty dumb, I don't know if I'd coin it the 'dumbest', simply because there were too many of those moments. While this piece solely focuses on his comments towards the SCOTUS, it doesn't cover other comments, like ridiculously joking about that treasonous hot mic moment with Medvedev...
...or mocking Romney (not that it's hard, but stupidly done by Obama)...
...or referring to Paul Ryan's budget as "social Darwinism"...
The man's rhetoric is turned up to 11...but only the usual choir boys are buying it. Obama is unhinged and unraveling before us as he becomes further unmoored from a constitutional rule of law. Hope you're watching, America!
