{"id":199,"date":"2012-04-03T01:20:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=199"},"modified":"2012-04-03T01:28:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T01:28:01","slug":"constitutional-law-professor-needs-to-be-corrected-on-obamacare-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Law Professor Needs to Be Corrected on ObamaCare Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/04\/02\/us-obama-healthcare-idUSBRE8310WP20120402\">What President Obama said<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What should have been said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ultimately, I am hoping that the Supreme Court will not shoot down a law that barely passed in a Democrat-party controlled Congress,&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It barely passed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act\">219-212<\/a>, and that was with a Democrat party majority everywhere in the federal government.\u00a0 Regardless, it&#8217;s a diversion and is ultimately irrelevant.\u00a0 It could pass by one vote or be unanimous, and the Supreme Court should decide on the constitutionality and nothing else.\u00a0 Obama should know this, and maybe he does.\u00a0 If he doesn&#8217;t know it, he must have been the worst constitutional law professor ever.\u00a0 Worst.\u00a0 Ever.\u00a0 If he does know it, he&#8217;s hoping to hoodwink enough people into voting for him again.\u00a0 The latter is more likely, of course, because the Democrat party has had great success in assuming stupidity on the part of the voters.<\/p>\n<p>An an aside, and still irrelevant, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the law <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0111\/47831.html\">245-189<\/a>, a far greater margin than it passed by.\u00a0 Using Obama&#8217;s reasoning, that&#8217;s good enough reason for the Supreme Court to decide against it, LOL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What President Obama said&#8230; &#8220;Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress,&#8221; What should &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=199\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrat-party","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}