Sunday, November 14, 2010

Jeeze! Not Again!

I got the following e-mail from my right-wing friend.  I have posted about this before, but thought it might be fun to post the whole thing and include my responses. My responses are in larger type and separated by a line.   



According to sources who watch the inner workings of the federal government, a smackdown of Barack Obama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable.

 Ever since Obama assumed the office of President, critics have hammered him on a number of Constitutional issues.

 Critics have complained that much, if not all of Obama's major initiatives run headlong into Constitutional roadblocks on the power of the federal government.

Obama certainly did not help himself in the eyes of the Court when he used the venue of the State of the Union address early in the year to publicly flog the Court over its ruling that the First Amendment grants the right to various organizations to run political ads during the time of an election.

The tongue-lashing clearly did not sit well with the Court, as demonstrated by Justice Sam Alito, who publicly shook his head and stated under his breath, 'That's not true.' when Obama told a flat-out lie concerning the Court's ruling.
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What lie?  That corporations would spend millions running ads for or against candidates in State and Federal races?  Guess what...they did!
Corporate sponsored Rethugs and teabaggers were rampant this season, just as Obama warned they would be.   

As it has turned out, this was a watershed moment in the relationship between the executive and the judicial branches of the federal government.  Obama publicly declared war on the court, even as he blatantly continued to propose legislation that flies in the face of every known Constitutional principle upon which this nation has stood for over 200 years.
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The court did that in its ruling on the Citizens United case.  They overturned major case law, ignored precedent, and LEGISLATED FROM THE BENCH, by granting Corporations the same rights of free speech as People. And while people use words, Corporations use money.  Do you think money is the same as words?  Do you think it's okay for a Corporation with unlimited funds to speak louder than you or me or any of us people? 

Obama has even identified Chief Justice John Roberts as his number one enemy, that is, apart from Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, and so on.
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Obama has never publicly stated that CJ J Bob is his number one enemy.
He has never called any of the others his enemy either.  He has simply stated that you can't make an informed choice if all you listen to is the Right-wing.  And he's right again!

And it is no accident that the one swing-vote on the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy, stated recently that he has no intention of retiring until Obama is gone.
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Actually, he said he doesn't plan to retire until 2012. If Obama gets a second term, Kennedy will be gone and Obama can appoint whomever he wants. Kennedy is 74. He'll be 77 in 2012. The dementia should have a firm grip by then. 

Apparently, the Court has had enough.

The Roberts Court has signaled, in a very subtle manner, of course, that it intends to address the issues about which Obama critics have been screaming to high heaven.

A ruling against Obama on any one of these important issues could potentially cripple the Administration.

Such a thing would be long overdue.

First, there is ObamaCare, which violates the Constitutional principle barring the federal government from forcing citizens to purchase something.

And no, this is not the same thing as states requiring drivers to purchase car insurance, as some of the intellectually-impaired claim.

The Constitution limits FEDERAL government, not state governments, from such things, and further, not everyone has to drive, and thus, a citizen could opt not to purchase car insurance by simply deciding not to drive a vehicle.

In the ObamaCare world, however, no citizen can 'opt out.'
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States can choose to Opt-out, so if your state doesn't want you to have affordable health care, you're in luck.  But some states with Republican administrations have complained that their states are too broke to implement Health Insurance reform so they will let the Federal government pay for it...Republicans are relying on the federal government to cover the uninsured population, helping bring about the very thing they fear — greater government involvement in the health care sector — while Democrats are employing state-based solutions.
Moreover, the idea of the high-risk pool was first proposed by then-presidential candidate John McCain, who believed that he could cover everyone with a pre-existing condition for just $10 billion. Conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation supported the idea, but Democrats saw it as an incredibly inefficient way of expanding coverage. Now that Obama has accepted the idea into health reform, Republicans are opposing it and opting out of McCain’s idea.

Second, sources state that the Roberts court has quietly accepted information concerning discrepancies in Obama's history that raise serious questions about his eligibility for the office of President.

The charge goes far beyond the birth certificate issue.  This information involves possible fraudulent use of a Social Security number in  Connecticut , while Obama was a high school student in  Hawaii .
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Hmmm, who was a student in Connecticut? BUSH. Obama was in Hawaii. over 3000 miles away.

And that is only the tip of the iceberg.

Third, several cases involving possible criminal activity, conflicts of interest, and pay-for-play cronyism could potentially land many Administration officials, if not Obama himself, in hot water with the Court.

Frankly, in the years this writer has observed politics, nothing comes close to comparing with the rampant corruption of this Administration, not even during the Nixon years. 

Nixon and the Watergate conspirators look like choirboys compared to the jokers that populate this Administration.

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The Supreme Court does not accept information concerning people
for the purposes of prosecution.  The court has no authority in that sense.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be the highest APPEALS court.  You case goes there only after appeals in State Supreme Courts fail.  And the Court has already rejected hearing any law suits concerning Obama's legitimacy to be President.
For corruption that makes Nixon and his cronies look like choirboys see the Bush Crime Family...Cheney was in Nixon's administration, too.  And he learned from Tricky Dicky's mistakes.

In addition, the Court will eventually be forced to rule on the dreadful decision of the Obama DOJ suing the state of  Arizona . 

That, too, could send the Obama doctrine of open borders to an early grave, given that the Administration refuses to enforce federal law on illegal aliens.
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The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT sets immigration law, not states.  Arizona's law is Unconstitutional on that basis.  If the Supreme Court hears the case, and it can choose no to, it will have to find FOR the Federal Government and AGAINST Arizona.   
Further, the Obama administration is enforcing immigration law.  His administration has deported more illegal immigrants in two years than Bush did in eight.
And Bush proposed giving them all amnesty, like Reagan did. 

And finally, the biggie that could potentially send the entire house of cards tumbling in a free-fall is the latest revelation concerning the Obama-Holder Department of Justice and its refusal to pursue the New Black Panther Party.

The group was caught on tape committing felonies by attempting to intimidate White voters into staying away from the polls. 
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Really...The New Black Panthers...really?  Do you mean the same New Black Panthers, whose membership could fit into a VW microbus, that the BUSH administration investigated and did not consider a threat?  The same ones who didn't intimidate anybody (several people who voted that day said they weren't scared of them and no one tried to stop them from voting)?  THOSE NEW BLACK PANTHERS?
They weren't even armed!  No shotguns or handguns were brandished or found.   

A whistle-blower who resigned from the DOJ is now charging Holder with the deliberate refusal to pursue cases against Blacks, particularly those who are involved in radical hate-groups, such as the New Black Panthers, who have been caught on tape  calling for the murder of white people and their babies.
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This particular whistle-blower has been discredited and his claims debunked.  As for the taped call for murder...this was done by a member of the group years ago, not during the voting thing. That member was suspended for a year.

 
This one is a biggie that could send the entire Administration crumbling--that is, if the Justices have the guts to draw a line in the sand at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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Again, for the court to do anything, a case has to be brought before it that has already been ruled on by a lower court.  Therefore, they can't do anything because there have been no cases in lower courts concerning these issues. 
That could be because most of these claims are false, they are based on Right-wing fantasies and talking points (more lies). 


GOOD NEWS IS WORTH PASSING ON TO THOSE ON YOUR E-MAIL LIST!!!
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BUT LIES AREN'T WORTH THE TIME TO READ!!!