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Justice Mouths 'Not True' as Obama Slams Court
Well I must say that I wasn't shocked by anything in the speech last night, but I was surprised by a couple of things. I figured that he would basically return to the blame game and continue to accuse the Bush administration for the majority of what he has failed to address or accomplish in his first year in office. Which is precisely what he did.
I assumed that he would take the position that he had accomplished a lot and that the American people had just failed to this point to recognize his accomplishments as it concerned the American Reinvestment Act act. And I was right about that.
I assumed that he would basically stare straight into the face of America and tell the American people that he was intent on continuing to pursue his agenda, regardless of what the people thought about it and regardless what they had to say about it. And I was right.
What I didn't anticipate was his lashing of the Supreme Court Justices seated immediately in front of him last night. Nor did I anticipate him to openly call for their legislative rebuke before congress while making his address to congress and the people.
Of course, I didn't anticipate his direct attack on congress either.
Now, even after paying for what we spent on my watch, we'll still face the massive deficit we had when I took office. More importantly, the cost of Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security will continue to skyrocket. That's why I've called for a bipartisan fiscal commission, modeled on a proposal by Republican Judd Gregg and Democrat Kent Conrad. (Applause.) This can't be one of those Washington gimmicks that lets us pretend we solved a problem. The commission will have to provide a specific set of solutions by a certain deadline.
Now, yesterday, the Senate blocked a bill that would have created this commission. So I'll issue an executive order that will allow us to go forward, because I refuse to pass this problem on to another generation of Americans. (Applause.) And when the vote comes tomorrow, the Senate should restore the pay-as-you-go law that was a big reason for why we had record surpluses in the 1990s. (Applause.)
That seems pretty clear to me. We have gone from having a legislative and judicial process in this country and three branches of government: and we now have a president who feels that he is not only omnipresent of knowledge and what's best for this country, but we now have a president prepared to circumvent and nullify both the Supreme Court and the US Congress. The executive branch intends to literally rule supreme cased upon this president's demonstrations of the past year and in his recap of his performance last night.
And he intends to do it by either directing legislation specifically designed to thwart unsatisfactory Supreme Court decisions, or he intends to do it by executive caveat and whim, via executive order.
And the man is quite comfortable in telly the American people precisely that during last night's state of the union address. America is standing perilously close to a dictatorial form of government based upon what was presented to the people last night.
How long before this son of socialism steps forward and declares himself president for life..
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