Obama Attempts to Intimidate the Supreme Court | The Blog on Obama: White House Dossier

Obama Attempts to Intimidate the Supreme Court | The Blog on Obama: White House Dossier: Obama’s comments, spoken during a press conference at the White House with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, gave me an out of body experience. I thought, I must be listening to the wrong president talking about someone else’s law, because this is not a recognizable description of what’s going or what happened with Obamacare. Until I realized I was hearing a bully issuing threats dressed up as commentary.

Here’s what he said:

Ultimately, 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. And I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years what we’ve heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint — that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example. And I’m pretty confident that this Court will recognize that and not take that step.

A strong majority? A STRONG MAJORITY?? The bill passed the House by 219-212 and got only 60 votes in the Senate, the very minimum number needed for any major legislation to get through.

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