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To: tejek who wrote (650156)	4/3/2012 12:59:59 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583367

President Barack Obama on Tuesday took aim at the budget drafted and passed by House Republicans, saying the cuts are too deep to let the economy grow. He told a room of newspaper editors that the budget "makes the Contract with America look like the New Deal." He also noted that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, his likely opponent in November, called the budget "marvelous" and hoped to sign a similar budget on his first day of office.

To: tejek who wrote (650156)	4/3/2012 1:01:51 PM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1583367

we have ruin the USSC, with Kagan, sotomayer and Ginsburg on the court ? lolol so who leaked the vote ? I say Kagan, she's a useful idiot. And sotomeyer thought a kid could be turned away from an ER if the parents didn't have issurance, what a freaking moron . I know that over 30 years ago and she's on the USSC. And the idiot ginsburg though all the ballots in FLA were treated exactly the same, partisan hack

To: tejek who wrote (650156)

4/3/2012 7:16:41 PM

From: PROLIFE

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you are really clueless, stay around and keep reading my posts MAYBE your libtards will learn something....but I have my doubts.

Thomas Sowell

Political Word Games

One of the highly developed talents of President Barack Obama is the ability to say things that are demonstrably false, and make them sound not only plausible but inspiring.

That talent was displayed just this week when he was asked whether he thought the Supreme Court would uphold ObamaCare as constitutional or strike it down as unconstitutional.

He replied: "I'm 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."

But how unprecedented would it actually be if the Supreme Court declared a law unconstitutional if it was passed by "a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress"?

The Supreme Court has been doing precisely that for 209 years!

Nor is it likely that Barack Obama has never heard of it. He has a degree from the Harvard law school and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago law school. In what must be one of the most famous Supreme Court cases in history — Marbury v. Madison in 1803 — Chief Justice John Marshall established the principle that the Supreme Court can declare acts of Congress null and void if these acts violate the Constitution.

They have been doing so for more than two centuries. It is the foundation of American constitutional law. There is no way that Barack Obama has never heard of it or really believes it to be "unprecedented" after two centuries of countless precedents.

In short, he is simply lying.

Now there are different kinds of liars. If we must have lying Presidents of the United States, I prefer that they be like Richard Nixon. You could just look at him and tell that he was lying.

But Obama is much smoother. On this and on many other issues, you would have to know what the facts are to know that he is lying. He is obviously counting on the fact that, in this era of dumbed-down education, many people have no clue as to what the facts are.

He is also counting on something else — namely, that the pro-Obama media will not expose his lies.

One of the many ways of lying smoothly is to simply redefine words. Barack Obama is a master at that as well.

In the comment on the case pending before the Supreme Court, President Obama said that he wanted to remind "conservative commentators" that they have complained about "judicial activism" — which he redefines as the idea that "an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law."

First of all, every law that the Supreme Court has overturned for the past 209 years since Marbury v. Madison was "a duly constituted and passed law."

Second, the "judicial activism" that conservatives have complained about was judges making rulings based on how they felt personally about the issue at hand, rather than about what the Constitution of the United States said.

In recent years, great efforts have been made to redefine "judicial activism" in terms of judges declaring laws unconstitutional, instead of "deferring" to Congress or other government institutions.

But what is the Constitution's Bill of Rights supposed

To: tejek who wrote (650156)	4/3/2012 7:17:06 PM
From: PROLIFE	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583367

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