Wait... What?

I'm not a fan of Obama. I think he's arrogant, vain, narcissistic, intellectually weak, duplicitous, mean-spirited and ruthless. His supporters say he is the most intelligent President ever. He has continually put himself in the top four or five Presidents when asked to rate himself. He was head of the Harvard Law Review (except he never wrote an article and didn't do any of the day-to-day running of the Review that normally comes with the job) and taught Constitutional law, except he didn't write any articles or conduct research and none of his students seem to remember anything about his classes. He's been trying to bully the Supreme Court to not throw out Obamacare by speaking out in public. Obama, the Constitutional scholar and smartest President ever said that the Supreme Court had never ruled a law unconstitutional and thrown it out. Except it has, because the job of the Supreme Court is to rule whether a law is or isn't Constitutional. It has in fact rules over three thousand laws unconstitutional since Marbury v Madison, something I learned in eighth grade.

After even the most in-the-tank journalist felt compelled to point this out, Obama explained himself. “First of all, let me be very specific,” Obama said. “We have not seen a court overturn a law that was passed by Congress on an economic issue like health care, that I think most people would clearly consider commerce, a law like that has not been overturned at least since Lochner, so we’re going back to the thirties, pre New Deal.”

Turns out that, besides being wrong, Obama, Constitutional Expert, mentioned a court case, 'Lochner v New York'. The 'New York' part means the case was filed against the state of New York. Why? Because the state of New York passed a law that the plaintiff felt, correctly, was unconstitutional. Congress didn't pass the law. So Obama, the smartest everything in the history of everything, doesn't know that the Supreme Court can rule on local or state laws as well as federal and doesn't know that the Court can strike down laws that are unconstitutional.

One of the problems liberals have is that they are almost never challenged. They control the media and the universities and government bureaucracies and since the media repeats the lie that anyone that disagrees with them must, must be evil and/or stupid, they come to think that they are always right and there is no other valid viewpoint. Reporters covering the Obamacare case last week were stunned, utterly stunned at the power of the questions the conservatives asked. The solicitor general stumbled and stuttered and was openly laughed at, even by the liberals. For two years, the administration has argued that the penalty for not having insurance is and isn't a tax at the same time. One of the justices called the solicitor general on it, pointing out that he wasn't able to keep it straight in the answer to a single question. Obama is furious that people disagree with him and he's even more furious that their opinion matters.