Tuesday, April 3, 2012

BloggeRhythms 4/3/2012

Yesterday, the nation's citizenry was given a chance to observe the free world's leader react to real pressure, for the first time I'm aware of. Because taking advantage of a huge world-wide audience, he basically advised the Supreme Court members to ignore their beliefs and responsibilities by yielding to his personal needs.

As for me, what came through most clearly was how childish and spoiled the nation's president is, whereas he cracked at the seams due to fear of rejection of his signature legislation -the horrible disaster of health care law that was rammed through a stacked Congress without debate or real thought.

And, while reading the gist of the president's remarks, the first thought that entered my mind was, if this is how he reacts to a still unknown decision which he can address for three more months down the road, what would he do if faced with having to react quickly, such as a terrorist attack, stock market crash or invasion? My guess is he'd go up to his room and break all his toys in frustration, and then go hide under his bed.

Yet, what was even more immature and sounded to me like inane babble were the actual words used in his tantrum. Because according to Jeff Mason of Reuters, the president said: "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. And I'd just remind conservative commentators that, for years, what we have 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."

So here we have an incumbent who's done all he could to force acceptance of justices at all levels -up to and including SCOTUS- that agree with his politics first and foremost trying to turn the tables around by suggesting it's his opponents that are wrong by pointing those facts out.

But, beyond that he more blatantly stated that "I think the justices should understand that in the absence of an individual mandate, you cannot have a mechanism to ensure that people with preexisting conditions can actually get health care. So there's not only a economic element to this, and a legal element to this, but there's a human element to this. And I hope that's not forgotten in this political debate."

What I find most incredible about the paragraph above is, the president's actually suggesting that ultimately the justices should ignore the law if they think the mandate's illegal because to him it's far more important that people are forced to acquire health care and socialize the system than is obedience to the Constitution of the United States.

Lastly, and the oddest part of it all considering that these comments come from the POTUS, whom was formerly a professor of law, is that the Founding Fathers were prescient enough to realize that there had to be a check and balance mechanism in governance. And the reason the SCOTUS was devised in the first place was to do exactly what they're charged with now: preventing misuse of power and/or the disregard or overriding of the law of the land.

So, maybe the best thing the president can do for himself now is go back and peruse some of the texts he studied in law school, because maybe he cut classes on the days they taught that Americans are a free people and not a misguided, self-impressed wannabe potentate's pawns.

That's it for today folks.

Adios

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