Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Obama Scolds the Supreme Court, But Obama Was Wrong

In his State of the Union speech, Obama scolded the Supreme Court for its decision to allow domestic corporations, and unions, to contribute to campaigns from general funds:
FIRST, THE SUPREME COURT DOES OT EXIST TO RUBBER STAMP THE WISHES OF THE ELECTED BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.
Any high school student should know about the independence of the three branches of government.
The Supreme Court is supposed to decide if cases brought before it are consistent with the Constitution and are they are guided by the wisdom of prior Court decisions, but they are not their to simply rubber stamp prior court decisions or the wishes of the President.
SECOND, OBAMA WAS ABSOLUTELY WRONG IN HIS STATEMENT THAT FOREIGN CORPORATIONS CAN NOW DONATE MONEY TO CAMPAIGNS.
One expert after another has commented that this is still specifically and clearly forbidden.
JUSTICE ALITO WAS CORRECT IN HIS GUT REACTION MOUTHING THAT WHAT OBAMA SAID WAS "DEFINITELY NOT TRUE".
It is clear that Obama and whomever gave him that line in his speech did not read or understand the Court's decision.
But, we all know that the Constitution is just an annoyance to Obama.
In the past, Obama has specifically said and wrote that he doesn't like the Constitution because it places too many restrictions on what the federal government.
NO KIDDING!
This was exactly what the founders intended! They were leery of a central (federal government with too much power and they intended to distribute the power to the States and to keep the federal government in check by distributing power to Congress and the Supreme Court.

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