{"id":16050,"date":"2012-04-05T17:42:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-05T17:42:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T17:42:08","slug":"the_latest_on_obama_v_the_court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/05\/the_latest_on_obama_v_the_court\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest on Obama v. the Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: The Justice Department got their homework assignment in on time to Judge Smith at the Fifth Circuit court in Houston. He demanded a three-page single-spaced letter, and that really ticked off the left that this judge would essentially issue a homework assignment to the Department of Justice. What really ticked off the left was that the government lawyer acknowledged, “Oh, yeah, Judge, there\u2019s judicial review<\/a>, and we accept that.” And the judge, the left says, should have accepted that. Instead he issued this order that the department itself issue him a three-page single spaced letter memo explaining their understanding of judicial review, and it is three pages long. And it is single-spaced. And it was signed by Eric the Red himself. Eric Holder. <\/p>\n

In a nutshell, the attorney general, Eric the Red, claims that the Department of Justice supports judicial review and that Obama\u2019s comments shows that he did, too. That\u2019s what it says when you boil it down. Which, of course, is untrue. Obama did the exact opposite. Holder says that laws passed by Congress are… I never heard of this word, presumptively constitutional. Laws passed by Congress are presumptively constitutional even though Holder\u2019s own DOJ is fighting the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act as we speak. This is one of the ironies of this. While Obama\u2019s out there saying that courts never overturn, they\u2019re asking the court to overturn DOMA. Even though DOMA was passed by a duly elected Congress, duly constituted bill, whatever. But both Obama and Holder have pronounced it to be unconstitutional. <\/line><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a story here today, Reuters: “White House in Damage Control Over Obama Supreme Court Remarks.” They\u2019re not in any damage control. He said exactly what he intended to say. There\u2019s no damage control going on. That\u2019s the illusion. They want you to think that there\u2019s damage control going on. That\u2019s exactly what Obama meant to say. We touched on this yesterday, but it is so truly hilarious that it might be worth going into a little bit more detail, because at the very least it shows Obama\u2019s ignorance and arrogance. Yesterday the White House “spokeskid,” Jay Carney, said that Obama merely made an unremarkable observation about 80 years of Supreme Court history, which is remarkably clueless even for the Carney kid. <\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s so-called observation was inaccurate in every aspect. If it was so unremarkable, why are so many people remarking on it, including Obama, and why do we have the story about damage control? Obama was campaigning when he made this statement, and he was campaigning to the stupid. I\u2019m sorry to have to repeat this to you, but we may have people listening that weren\u2019t yesterday. This whole thing, Obama has decided that he\u2019s going to get reelected on the stupid. What he basically was saying was these guys on the court are gonna take away your health care, and they\u2019re not allowed to do that, but they\u2019re gonna do it. They want to take away your health care. And they better not, they better understand. I\u2019m warning them. <\/p>\n

It was no mystery what Obama was doing, and this idea that he\u2019s in damage control is just laughable. (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t assume the stupid are listening here, Snerdley. Snerdley wants to know if the stupid are smart enough to know I\u2019m talking about them. I don\u2019t assume the stupid are listening. (interruption) Well, I don\u2019t know. Well, maybe the stupid will hear about it, but then the question is will they be smart enough to know that I\u2019m talking about them? It\u2019s sort of like when you ban the ugly and say, “Make it voluntary.” Then the question becomes: Do the ugly know they\u2019re ugly? There\u2019s no scientific data on that. Do the stupid know that they\u2019re stupid? Probably not, by definition. <\/p>\n

The stupid think everybody else is stupid. But they\u2019re smart enough to know that Obama\u2019s looking out for \u2019em, not Bill O\u2019Reilly. They think Obama\u2019s looking out for \u2019em. And so here\u2019s Obama telling them essentially that the court doesn\u2019t have the right to take away their health care, but they\u2019re thinking of doing it. That\u2019s what he\u2019s telling \u2019em. No damage control here. What they\u2019re trying to do is structure this so that Obama doesn\u2019t have to take it back. It\u2019s a campaign statement. That\u2019s all that\u2019s going on here, is an attempt to massage this. <\/line><\/p>\n

There was a story in The Politico today: “Jeffrey Toobin: Judges ‘Deranged\u2019 by Obama Hatred — After accusing a federal appellate court panel of throwing a ‘hissy fit\u2019 about President Barack Obama, outspoken CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said Thursday that the order requiring the president to explain his beliefs about judicial review was a ‘disgrace\u2019 and he called some Republican judges ‘deranged by their hatred for the president. I think what these judges have done is a disgrace,\u2019 Toobin said on CNN. ‘What President Obama said was entirely appropriate. There is nothing wrong, there\u00c2\u2019s nothing controversial.\u2019 He said, ‘I signed a law that was passed by the democratically elected congress and I think it\u00c2\u2019s constitutional.'”<\/p>\n

Who are we kidding here? So Toobin has decided that he, too, wants his audience to be comprised of the stupid, which may well be the case at CNN. Snerdley is still asking me, “Are you sure there are no stupid?” If the stupid come to this show, they don\u2019t stay stupid long. They either leave or they become smart. By definition, the stupid don\u2019t listen here. One of two things happens: The stupid tune in, don\u2019t understand it and leave and go back to E Entertainment TV or try to find Snooki reruns, or they get smart, pure and simple. <\/p>\n

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Now, Mr. Toobin, let me see if I can help you understand something, because you people on the left, by virtue of your reaction to some of the questioning in the oral arguments, you really, Mr. Toobin, you don\u2019t understand constitutionalists. You don\u2019t understand people who love the Constitution. You don\u2019t understand conservatism. You don\u2019t understand conservatives. You don\u2019t understand concept of limited government at all. Let me try to explain to you what might be going on here, Mr. Toobin. You have, in the case of Judge Smith — I don\u2019t know him. I\u2019m assuming that Judge Smith loves the Constitution. I think Judge Smith loves the Constitution far more than he hates anybody. Why is it that every time that there is a political dispute, you people on the left have to assign hate to it and automatically exempt yourselves? You are the haters. You are the people that have this barely controllable rage coursing through your veins, not us. <\/p>\n

But, Mr. Toobin, what\u2019s happening here, there is a battle for this country going on. This is not insignificant stuff, and it\u2019s not a laughing matter. When the president of the United States makes it plain that he doesn\u2019t think the court has the right to find his bill unconstitutional, that matters to a sitting judge. You think the judge did this for political reasons, to embarrass Obama? The judge did this because of what the president of the United States said, and it\u2019s about time somebody asked this guy, “Who are you and what do you really believe?” And that\u2019s what this judge was doing. Mr. Toobin, there are some of us who are really worried about losing our country. There are some of us to whom none of this is a game. There are some of us who look at life through a prism other than will it help Obama get reelected. <\/a>There are some of us who look at these events as being life changing, nation changing, and, in some cases, unrecoverable. <\/p>\n

This judge is not deranged by hatred. If anything, the judge has a love of the Constitution and wants to see that it\u2019s upheld, and he doesn\u2019t want it trampled on by the highest executive officer in the land. But if the president wants to sound as though he\u2019s ignorant, which he did, if he wants to sound like he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about, it\u2019s perfectly within this judge\u2019s purview to find out if we have a president who knows what he\u2019s talking about when it comes to the actions of the courts. And whatever Obama\u2019s motivation was, when he came out and warned the court and when he told \u2019em that it\u2019s unprecedented to overturn laws that have been duly constituted or passed by a duly constituted body, that sounds like he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about, Mr. Toobin. And that\u2019s frightfully dangerous. <\/p>\n

So, anyway, the letter has been turned over to the judge by Eric the Red. And once again they said, (paraphrasing) “Hey, the DOJ supports the initial review, Obama\u2019s comments show that he did, too, we believe that laws passed by Congress are presumptively constitutional.” That\u2019s it, we\u2019re fine, everything\u2019s cool. But they\u2019re deranged out there. Judges deranged by hatred. What these judges have done is a disgrace. The judges give the Justice Department a homework assignment, three-page letter single-spaced explaining what the president said. There are people that want to know, Mr. Toobin, who this man really is. There are people who want to know exactly what his intentions are. There are those people, Mr. Toobin, and they love the country. They are not consumed with hatred.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, today has blasted Obama, telling him to back off the Supreme Court, back off these comments. “The president crossed a dangerous line this week,” McConnell said to the Lexington, Kentucky, Rotary Club, “and anybody who cares about liberty needs to call him out on it. The independence of the court must be defended.” So McConnell was at the Lexington Rotary Club and launched on Obama. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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