Obama takes a shot at Supreme Court over healthcare

[Obama takes a shot at Supreme Court over healthcare by Jeff Mason] "Reuters - President Barack Obama took an opening shot at conservative justices on the Supreme Court on Monday, warning that a rejection of his sweeping healthcare law would be an act of "judicial activism" that Republicans say they abhor.

Obama, a Democrat, had not commented publicly on the Supreme Court's deliberations since it heard arguments for and against the healthcare law last week.

Known as the "Affordable Care Act" or "Obamacare," the measure to expand health insurance for millions of Americans is considered Obama's signature domestic policy achievement.

A rejection by the court would be a big blow to Obama going into the November 6 presidential election.

Republican presidential candidates, who are vying to take on Obama in November elections, have promised to repeal the law if one of them wins the White House.

Obama's advisers say they have not prepared contingency plans if the measure fails. But the president -- who expressed confidence that the court would uphold the law -- made clear how he would address it on the campaign trail if the court strikes it down.

"Ultimately, I am confident 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," Obama said at a news conference with the leaders of Canada and Mexico..." Full text: Obama takes a shot at Supreme Court over healthcare

The court will decide if Obamacare is constitutional.

Response to comment [from other]: "The greatest part is how one day Obama's lawyers argued it wasn't a tax and the next day the argued it was a tax..."

Oopsie.

Response to comment [from a Christian]:  "...[T]he President should demonstrate a proper respect for the Court and his own office and leave off over reaching comments regarding the functioning of another branch. I know he didn't get that approach at Harvard Law."

He doesn't mind breaking the mold. Maybe he's just jealous that Justice Kennedy appears to be king.

"Obama will run over The Congress, The Court, capitalism, and the Constitution (Bill Bennett radio program, 3 Apr 12)."

Response to comment [from a Catholic]: "Yes, he should. But the concern is that this mandate is going down, so it's a bald attempt to influence judicial opinion."

The mandate funds the whole thing--stealing from one group of people to pay for another group of people (Ex 20:15). Didn't the U.S. Roman Catholic Bishops support Obamacare?

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Yup, 219 to 212 is a mighty strong majority."

It passed by a slight majority.

Obama recently said that he doesn't mind if you call it "Obamacare" because Obama cares.

Howard Dean, the former head of the Democratic party, once said: "Democrats don't believe kids ought to go to bed hungry at night.” Dennis Prager says if this is what Democrats think of conservatives, they must be moral giants to be able to be friends with us--we conservatives, who want kids to go to bed hungry.

Response to comment [from a Christian]: "What I find interesting about this whole issue is that the republicans were proposing this exact same solution to the health care problem in the early 1990s. It was their idea, and at the time, they were all for it."

Au contraire. Their proposal was not the "exact same solution".

Obama takes a shot at Supreme Court over healthcare