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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (480421)	4/3/2012 12:00:41 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 793601

It would certainly be the end of him. *To say that would cause a constitutional crisis would be the understatement of the year.*

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (480421)	4/3/2012 12:02:54 PM
From: ManyMoose	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793601

Obama's made-up resume says he's a constitutional law professor, but if that's true then he's an utter failure at that too. Aside from curtain hanging and reading teleprompters, I don't know of anything he's good at. Our "Constitutional Law Professor" Obama must have missed the class on Marbury v. Madision when he went to law school. Has he never heard about checks and balances?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (480421)	4/3/2012 1:29:06 PM
From: Little Joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793601

Well this is the same guy who looks at massive fraud in the banking and securities and decides that no crimes were committed. If this is what he learned at Harvard, he should demand a refund. lj

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (480421)	4/3/2012 2:08:14 PM
From: simplicity	17 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793601

I am fearful this petty tyrant may simply disregard any decision by the Supreme Court knocking down Obamacare and decree that he is going ahead to implement it anyway To say that would cause a constitutional crisis would be the understatement of the year. It will only cause a constitutional crisis if someone(s) in leadership position is successful in taking him on. Obama has begun to make a habit of ignoring the courts. No matter what one thinks of the recent Georgia case regarding the authenticity of his birth certificate, he was served with a subpoena to appear in a Georgia court and he defied that subpoena because it was 'unreasonable and oppressive' and because any testimony he might provide would be 'irrelevant and immaterial'. Imagine if one of us defied a court subpoena because we believed the court's reasons for issuing it were unfair or foolish, or that our testimony would not prove to be meaningful. *arrogance: an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions* In 2010 he was also issued a federal court order to lift his ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf. He ignored that as well by simply issuing to the court 'new facts' that arose which further supported his decision to impose the moratorium -- in effect, telling the court, 'Here are my reasons. They are sufficient.' Last year when Judge Vinson declared the individual mandate of the healthcare law to be unconstitutional, voiding all regulations derived from the law unless and until a higher court over-rules his ruling, all aspects of the law were to be discontinued until a final ruling was handed down by the Supreme Court. The administration responded by saying simply, 'Implementation will continue.' And it has. His latest show of arrogance toward the judicial system is simply more of the same. The only difference is that he is now showing his disdain for the third branch of government at its highest level. In only three short years this man has succeeded in elevating the executive branch to the point where he has nearly declared the legislative branch impotent. And now, because of the timing of the Obamacare decision, he has moved over to the judicial branch. If he has his way, the Founders' magnificent vision of a delicate balance of power between the three branches is nearing extinction. tyranny: the arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority