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The 'Because I Said So' President
President Barack Obama’s attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court into going along with the individual mandate in Obamacare comes as no surprise to conservatives.
The idea that a President should try to intimidate the Supreme Court to accomplish his political goals goes back at least to the New Deal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the very foundation of the modern liberal Democrat Party and its policy of buying votes and power by dispensing federal largess through legislation of dubious constitutionality.
Establishment liberal Democrat politicians believe that the mere statement of their policy goals constitutes a fact or argument in favor of the means they are using to accomplish those goals.
Thus, merely stating that a law they have passed will reduce “gun violence” is an argument in favor of the constitutionality of the DC gun ban. Similarly, liberals see the fact that Obamacare bestows subsidized health care on several million children and millions more adults with pre-existing conditions as arguments in favor of the constitutionality of Obamacare.
This is what President Obama termed “the human element” during an appearance in the White House Rose Garden with Canadian Prime Minister Harper and Mexican President Calderon, where he made an effort, unprecedented since the days of FDR, to cajole and intimidate the Supreme Court into upholding the individual mandate.
Since FDR’s time this attitude has created a government laden with $15 trillion in debt by a frightening, but ultimately vain attempt to cure every social ill that afflicts the liberal conscience, and grown the federal Leviathan into a corrupt monstrosity that the Framers of the Constitution would find unrecognizable.
The fact that in the 1930s the Supreme Court refused to be intimidated and ultimately found six of Roosevelt's eight major New Deal statutes unconstitutional, most often due to finding that attempts to implement the New Deal through the Interstate Commerce Clause were unconstitutional, didn’t get any play in the mainstream media during the Supreme Court’s hearings on Obamacare.
Roosevelt eventually got his way on much of the New Deal through more carefully drafted legislation and because from 1937 to 1943 he had opportunities to appoint eight new justices to the Supreme Court, changing the make-up of the Court from conservative to liberal.
If the mainstream media’s liberal reporters knew their history a bit better they would recognize that once upon a time there was a majority on the Supreme Court who looked to the Constitution as the law that governs government. That conservative Supreme Court majority ultimately decided that, even in the face of Presidential attempts at intimidation, “because I said so” doesn’t make a federal power grab constitutional.
The idea that a President should try to intimidate the Supreme Court to accomplish his political goals goes back at least to the New Deal of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the very foundation of the modern liberal Democrat Party and its policy of buying votes and power by dispensing federal largess through legislation of dubious constitutionality.
Establishment liberal Democrat politicians believe that the mere statement of their policy goals constitutes a fact or argument in favor of the means they are using to accomplish those goals.
Thus, merely stating that a law they have passed will reduce “gun violence” is an argument in favor of the constitutionality of the DC gun ban. Similarly, liberals see the fact that Obamacare bestows subsidized health care on several million children and millions more adults with pre-existing conditions as arguments in favor of the constitutionality of Obamacare.
This is what President Obama termed “the human element” during an appearance in the White House Rose Garden with Canadian Prime Minister Harper and Mexican President Calderon, where he made an effort, unprecedented since the days of FDR, to cajole and intimidate the Supreme Court into upholding the individual mandate.
Since FDR’s time this attitude has created a government laden with $15 trillion in debt by a frightening, but ultimately vain attempt to cure every social ill that afflicts the liberal conscience, and grown the federal Leviathan into a corrupt monstrosity that the Framers of the Constitution would find unrecognizable.
The fact that in the 1930s the Supreme Court refused to be intimidated and ultimately found six of Roosevelt's eight major New Deal statutes unconstitutional, most often due to finding that attempts to implement the New Deal through the Interstate Commerce Clause were unconstitutional, didn’t get any play in the mainstream media during the Supreme Court’s hearings on Obamacare.
Roosevelt eventually got his way on much of the New Deal through more carefully drafted legislation and because from 1937 to 1943 he had opportunities to appoint eight new justices to the Supreme Court, changing the make-up of the Court from conservative to liberal.
If the mainstream media’s liberal reporters knew their history a bit better they would recognize that once upon a time there was a majority on the Supreme Court who looked to the Constitution as the law that governs government. That conservative Supreme Court majority ultimately decided that, even in the face of Presidential attempts at intimidation, “because I said so” doesn’t make a federal power grab constitutional.
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