Supreme Court Historian: After President’s “Insult,” Won’t Be Surprised If Supreme Court Doesn’t Attend Next Year’s State of the Union Address

Interesting context here. I had forgotten the history between Obama and Alito.

Stay classy, sara. When even the NYT agrees that Alito was correct and Obama didn’t have his facts straight, it should signal the thinking person that you’re defending the indefensible. The President isn’t “God,” either.
This kind of behavior is beneath the Presidency.

Sara, corporate donations were happening anyways. Money is remarkably good at finding a way. This ruling changed very little in that regard.
And, most importantly, this was a matter of freedom. People have a right to free speech, I’m sure you’d agree. Well, all corporations really are are groups of people. People don’t give up that right when they get together with other people.
And a good analogy can be made with freedom of the press – are corporations permitted this freedom? You’d better hope so, because a good chunk of the press in this country is owned by corporations.
“Corporations” in the abstract are a scapegoat politicians love to blame for whatever ills have befallen their voters. Don’t fall for it.

Obama was exactly right and Congress must, and I believe will, correct the huge problems this bad Supreme Court decision would create.
I don’t understand the outrage here. Supreme Court justices are not gods sent to walk among us mere mortals here on earth. They make mistakes. They each have their own human flaws. The Supreme Court has made some horrendously wrong decisions over the years (Dred Scott, anyone?). Must we all simply sit back and never criticize? Is that what the founders wanted?

Does this shock you that Obama would say something like this? He is the most arrogant President we have had since Nixon. He tried to start out by using “We” instead of “I” last night but he didnt last long. They said he used “I” or “Me” over 100 times. He can’t handle adversity. That is what I have seen. Obama blasted the Courts Ruling but how many dollars did he and McCain get from foreigner donors?

“Obama blasted the Courts Ruling but how many dollars did he and McCain get from foreigner donors?”
Zero.
Foreigners are not allowed to contribute to elections until this ruling.
The cases in which some did, money was refunded (poor McCain was done in by one of his bundlers).
The reason this can allow foreigners a voice in US electiosn is that it gives multinational corporations the same free speech rights enjoyed by American citizens that are human beings.

“What happened to the right’s anti-court activism stance? Wasn’t it all of yesterday they were talking about how the courts shouldn’t make policy and now that their not in power they approve of court activism especially when it works for them.”
Yes the right wing’s rank hypocrisy would be shocking if not oh so predictable.

The clown in the Oval Office really is an idiot.
What was disturbing was the response by the Democrats in the audience. It was meant to deride and intimidate the SCOTUS.
It was thuggish.

“Now werent people sending money on pay cards to their candidates?”
Pay cards?
Do you mean credit cards?
“With the names of Mickey Mouse, DOnald Duck, etc..”
No you are thinking of the voter registration fraud where people paid to collect registrations for voters submitted fake registrations to ACORN which was required by law to turn them over to the government.
“They sent in millions that way.”
Nope.

Yes the right wing’s rank hypocrisy would be shocking if not oh so predictable.
Posted by: Ryan C | Jan 28, 2010 3:40:07 PM
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Republican motto: Party First – Country Second

Obama is a clown ,in over his head,insulting the American people and the Supreme Court.He must think he is Chavez.

“What happened to the right’s anti-court activism stance? Wasn’t it all of yesterday they were talking about how the courts shouldn’t make policy and now that their not in power they approve of court activism especially when it works for them.”
Yes the right wing’s rank hypocrisy would be shocking if not oh so predictable.
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Really? What happened to the left’s love of judicial activism? Wasn’t it yesterday they were talking about how the courts should make policy and now that they’re (learn how to spell) in power they disapprove of court activism especially when they don’t like the outcome?
Your hypocrisy would be shocking if not oh so predictable.

“With all due deference for seperation of powers” – no line ever uttered by this president displays who he truly is more clearly. Never forget this line. You all know how he feels about what he’s “showing deference” for by the delivery of this line.
Vote liberty over despotism,freedom over socialism, common sense over a long disproven ideology of government control and central planning. Vote Republican in 2010 & 2012.

Vote liberty over despotism,freedom over socialism, common sense over a long disproven ideology of government control and central planning. Vote Republican in 2010 & 2012.”
“Vote Corporation, Vote Republican”
There I shortened it for you.
It can even fit on a bumpersticker.

Had this been a liberal judge publicly mouthing disenting words about something a conservative president said, the “progressive” posture would undoubtedly be, “His head,His head!” What a bunch of dolts!

I’m a life long republican and I completely agree with the President.
This decision is unprecedented in its outrageous foolishness. People have the right to free speech, not corporations. As a matter of fact, children do not have the complete right of free speech — just ask your school administrators.
Therefore the idea that a company has rights that some people don’t seems foolish and un-American to me.
It would make more sense to give Bonobos free speech rights than companies — at least they kind of look like people.
Alito can mouth whatever nonsense he wants, but the fact is that companies are not people.
This is what you get when you let ideologues occupy important government posts. There ought to be a “middle of the road” litmus test for every job.
Read Sandra Day O’Connors view…

Yes, Obama insulted the justices. But after all, why should they get much better treatment than the rest of us he has been insulting for over a year now.
I also find it amusing that Obama is “outraged” that corporations some of which may be controlled by foreigners should have equal rights as US citizens. Apparently, this outrage does not apply to foreign terrorist organizations getting equal rights as US citizens in civilian courts. Oh that’s right, I forgot: foreign Muslim extremists are innocent until proven guilty, but we are at war with corporations.

“REALLY? Explain Kelo! THE death of private property for corporate tax advancement. The Left cares NOTHING for the little guy who has a mind of his own.”
Who on the left cheered Kelo?
None that I remember though feel free to remind me.
Who is cheering this decision?
Every right wing moron with their corporate provided platform.

Umm, exactly how did the court “make policy” in striking down a law Congress passed contrary to the First Amendment?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I don’t see where individuals are distinguished from groups of individuals in political parties, unions or corporations. It just says Congress shall make no law abridging speech. Period.

“I don’t see where individuals are distinguished from groups of individuals in political parties, unions or corporations. It just says Congress shall make no law abridging speech. Period.”
Corporations have the same rights as people.
Ladies and gentlemen, pay attention to the right wingers.
For once they are being honest about their views.

Obama is a child. Free speech for me but not for thee. Tell us Obama how much did you receive from foreign interests, corporation and your favorite the Unions during your campaign? Hypocrite! The Liar in Chief has no shame or class and couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it.

Tell the court to get off their high horse, and do something positive for the people, instead of allowing crime to run rampant.

Vote Corporation. Vote Republican.
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Kudos.

gallup has Obama at 47%. Guess the only ones that still believe his lies and will defend him to their death, even after he has been proven a lier(or just stupid I can’t decide) are the ones posting one here.
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President Reagan fell far below Obama to 35% approval during his first term. “Guess the only ones that still believe his lies and will defend him to their death, even after he has been proven a lier(or just stupid I can’t decide) are the ones posting one here.”

“gallup has Obama at 47%. Guess the only ones that still believe his lies and will defend him to their death, even after he has been proven a lier(or just stupid I can’t decide) are the ones posting one here”
In a time of 10% unemployment the President’s job approval is nearly 50%.
2 years ago in a time of 6% unemployment, the President’s job approval was barely 30%.

“Apparently few if any of the posters have read the decision. It has been well established in generations of Supreme Court jurisprudence that freedom of speech is enjoyed by corporations, which after all are nothing more than associations of PEOPLE.”
It bears repeating…
Corporations have the same rights as people.
Ladies and gentlemen, pay attention to the right wingers.
For once they are being honest about their views.

Bad manners indicates bad breeding. Under ordinary circumstances, I would say that Obama is white trash but that is not appropriate, is it? I guess the proper term is ‘uppity.’

ryan, just wait. He’s getting there faster than any other president in history.

“ryan, just wait. He’s getting there faster than any other president in history.”
He’ll have to get on his horse to catch reagan

Obama is a child. Free speech for me but not for thee. Tell us Obama how much did you receive from foreign interests, corporation and your favorite the Unions during your campaign? Hypocrite! The Liar in Chief has no shame or class and couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it.
Posted by: tobias2012 | Jan 28, 2010 5:20:38 PM
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Exactly. I remember all of the funds coming in from foreign donors and obama not revealing who they were. George Soros an be considered a large foreign corporate donor to obama and the moveon.org. Corporations will now be able to counter the millions of dollars unions contribute to obama and the democrats. Now we are on an even playing field that liberals, Acorn, obama, and democrats do not like.

Regardless of where you stand on the recent SCOTUS ruling, what Obama did last night was demonstrate he has NO CLASS.
On the facts, what he said was also untrue.
He acted as a bully in the same way that people allege Bush acted as a bully.
That is NOT presidential, that is immature. More and more I believe that the current person sitting in the Oval Office is nothing more than a man-child who lashes out at “whatever” when he starts to hit rough water.
Too bad, Obama YOU wanted the job. YOU got it! Time to man up and stop pointing fingers.
You might also try NOT inviting lobbyists to a secret meeting at the White House less than 24 hours after talking about “change” to how lobbyists get treated by you.

Given all the problems in this country, why is J. Alito’s reaction newsworthy.
Geeze, maybe he just had a gas attack. No cameras in the U.S. Supreme Court for sure-ever. By the way, the world won’t end if no justices show up next year. But, I’ll take Prof. Powes’ bet.

When George Soros failed to obtain the election of his candidate, John Kerry, in 2004, he brooded for a while, even said he might get out of politics altogether, but he just couldn’t stop himself. He has stated publicly that he wishes to burst the “bubble of American supremacy,” because he says our preeminence in the world is a detriment to global “equilibrium.” So far, he has failed, but he keeps on trying.
And Mr. Soros has made no secret either of the fact that he sees the shortest way to effect political shake-ups, what he terms “regime changes,” is through very difficult economic conditions.
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Soros is no American.

“Pamela Geller, who with the help of her readers at Atlas Shrugs broke and pursued the story in the summer of 2008,”
Pamela Geller also claimed Obama had a forged birth certificate and was really born in Kenya.
That was before she claimed Obama;s real father was Malcolm X.
She advocates White Nationalism, hates Muslims and supports war criminals in Bosnia.
She is emblematic of all the worst traits of the right wing.
So color me shocked when you, the self proclaimed Hillary supporting former Democrat turned “independent”, would cite her in any way shape or form.

Again, I repeat, Soros is no American. He wants the demise of our country. obama said last night that American will not be 2nd, didn’t he? Ryan should be against Soros, but instead he is defending Soros because probably he works at moveon.org or one of the many organizations that Soros owns.
Ryan cannot deny that obama took foreign funds for his campaign. Ryan cannot deny obama is a hypocrit.

No class … how about your right-wing classless Joe “You Lie” Wilson. Talk about low breeding. Last year Wilson embarassed not only himself, but also his office and the Congress. So if you want to start calling people white trash, let’s start with Wilson. I’d say he embarassed his constituents, but I think the majority of them are just like him. No Democrat or Independent ever yelled out “you lie” to George Bush and he did lie ..remember the WMD’s
And don’t go around saying that people are unfairly accusing you of being racist. You all deserve that title when you use words like “uppity” to refer to Obama as was done in one of the above comments. Just come out and admit it that you Republicans are so angry that a black man is in office that you all can’t see straight.
So what if the Supreme Court doesn’t show up next year. These people are adults and if they are so childish as not show up because they got their feelings hurt then they are too immature to hold the position of a justice on the Supreme Court. They are a branch of our government and it’s their job to be there.

by pratice they don’t even clap anyways ,So why would President Obama care.
So you put more cheering people in that section , i see a upside.

Disgraceful.

He thinks he is smarter than the Supreme Court, but we still can’t see his grades.

“No class … how about your right-wing classless Joe “You Lie” Wilson. Talk about low breeding. Last year Wilson embarassed not only himself, but also his office and the Congress. So if you want to start calling people white trash, let’s start with Wilson.” Posted by I’ve Had It.***************
“Asked today what President Obama’s reaction was to Justice Alito’s reaction, White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton said, “one of the great things about our democracy is that powerful members of the government at high levels can disagree in public and in private. This is one of those cases.”********
The President can say anything he wants for everyone to hear, but the opposition better be quiet about it. Double standard?

Many of the comments here demonstrate that the poster has not even taken the time to read and understand the decision of the Court. But perhaps more astounding is the knee jerk criticism of corporations that betrays a lack of sophistication and understanding of the business world. Many businesses operate in the corporate form for a number of reasons – tax and benefit considerations and limited liability for the principal(s) being chief among these reasons. Its possible that your doctor, your convenience store owner, and the local coffee shop and some of your favorite charities are such businesses. The campaign finance laws operated against these businesses as surely as it did against multi-nationals.
Just another perspective to consider.

“Many of the comments here demonstrate that the poster has not even taken the time to read and understand the decision of the Court. But perhaps more astounding is the knee jerk criticism of corporations that betrays a lack of sophistication and understanding of the business world. Many businesses operate in the corporate form for a number of reasons – tax and benefit considerations and limited liability for the principal(s) being chief among these reasons. Its possible that your doctor, your convenience store owner, and the local coffee shop and some of your favorite charities are such businesses. The campaign finance laws operated against these businesses as surely as it did against multi-nationals.”
ROFLMAO!
Now its all about the Mom and Pop “S’ corporations being able to have greater influence than then mere citizen!
Right wingers grow desperate to cover up their defense of outright corporate ownership of our government.
While I am not crazy about public financing of elections because I think there is an inherent advantage to incumbents maybe its time we really explored it.

Obama definitelty hit the SCOTUS below the belt. I know of no sitting Justice who would publicly diss the President. They have dignity and class whereas Obama completely missed class. The mask is slipping, folks!

That was due respect and deference? Please. That was political hackery. That was a President without any executive experience demeaning the office of the President.
Stop making up excuses for this hack cry baby of a disaster.

President Warren Harding in 1922 (also a State of the Union address) urged passage of a constitutional amendment to counteract Supreme Court rulings — the decisions that placed child labor “outside the proper domain of federal regulation,” as he put it. Harding added, “We ought to amend [the Constitution] to meet the demands of the people when sanctioned by deliberate public opinion.”
There is a precedent for this – its done when a President feels laws need to be rewritten – since what the Supreme Court does is interpret law.

what we have here is just a lack of communication, we the people need to impeach both democrats and republicans and the potus, and start all over again, our u.s. constitution and the bill of rights are being trashed by all these crooks in office and the some of these people who have drank the kool-aid need to wake up and drink coffee before these marxist in office take the rest of your liberty and freedom, if any of you are americans, true americans and love your freedom, stand up against this tyranny. a soldier for the republic

people who have drank the kool-aid
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“kool-aid”! Now that is clever! Did you think that up yourself? Good thing you’re not just a mindless ideological parrot mouthing slogans. Nice to see people thinking independently!

Obama has certainly insulted the
American people……..why not the
Supreme Court?
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Oh yeah?
WASHINGTON: Eight in ten Americans have approved of the proposals president Barack Obama made in his State of the Union speech on Wednesday, according to a new poll.
It also revealed that 70% of speech watchers think that Obama shares the same priorities for the country as they do. Only 57% thought so before the speech.
ANI

“Ryan, you can’t stand the fact that people who supported Hillary didn’t blindly follow obama.”
No.
I cant stand the fact that right wingers pretend to support Hillary as they denigrate the causes she has spent her life fighting for.
All to attack Obama.
Please tell me what domestic policies that Clinton advocated that you are also for?
Her plan for universal healthcare?
Windfall taxes on oil profits?
More entitlement programs?
Pro choice?
Gun Control?

Obama was all over the place last night making sure he had either pandered to or insulted just about everyone.
He is totally lost.
That’s what happens when you have no principles, stand for nothing, and sell out to the highest bidder.

“That’s what happens when you have no principles, stand for nothing, and sell out to the highest bidder.”
Hey be nice to Sarah Palin.

I liked her, Ryan. I know she would work hard for the country and do everything in her power to do what was right for the country. She is doing that now. How many vacations has she had? She is working her butt off!! She won every debate against obama. I remember telling her in Parma OH – to “kill him on foreign policy” right before she debated him in TX. And she did. She wiped the floor with him on foreign policy.
After each debate, she won that state primary.
You can’t categorize Independents. In fact, don’t categorize Democrats or Republicans. Many Republicans voted for obama and many Democrats voted for McCain. Many Democrats voted for Brown last week.
Maybe you should start opening your mind.

And you know what Ryan, I can’t stand people like you who, after you assassinated her character all over the internet, act like you are a supporter of hers. You are one of the moveon.org or dailykos people who were up all night saying terrible things about her on every blog you could find.
And you know you will be right back hating on Hillary if/when she decides to run against obama in 2012. And she might.

Democrats love to whip up the fear of corporations. Remember how they used to demonize Big Pharma? That was before Big Pharma sweet talked Obama into a deal. And recall that part of that deal included a sizable donation by Big Pharma to be used to advocate for Obamacare. Democrats don’t care when corporations advocate Democrat’s approved views.

There wasn’t anything in the Presidents remarks that wasn’t objectively true. He did not question their motivation for ruling the way they did.
If they take it as an insult, it is more a reflection on their own ‘consciouness of guilt’ than it is on the Presidents manners.

Oh yeah?
WASHINGTON: Eight in ten Americans have approved of the proposals president Barack Obama made in his State of the Union speech on Wednesday, according to a new poll.
It also revealed that 70% of speech watchers think that Obama shares the same priorities for the country as they do. Only 57% thought so before the speech.
ANI
Posted by: tierra | Jan 28, 2010 7:29:33 PM
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You definitely won’t need to come out to the polls in November. Maybe those polls are a Republican conspiracy – to make you believe everything’s all right with obama’s policies and Congress’ spending. Republicans hope you forget about what happened in MA too.

Please tell me what domestic policies that Clinton advocated that you are also for?
Her plan for universal healthcare?
Windfall taxes on oil profits?
More entitlement programs?
Pro choice?
Gun Control?
Posted by: RyanC | Jan 28, 2010 7:32:29 PM
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Didn’t see any kind of answer on these or any other policies of Clinton’s supported. Not even any details on foreign policy supported.
I have a feeling you’re right Ryan – the support seems either bogus, or shallow.

“Didn’t see any kind of answer on these or any other policies of Clinton’s supported. Not even any details on foreign policy supported.”
Of course not.
You have to actual know something about the policy to have an opinion.
“I have a feeling you’re right Ryan – the support seems either bogus, or shallow.”
I would have said shallow but for the way she wields her Hillary support as a weapon.

I would have said shallow but for the way she wields her Hillary support as a weapon.
Posted by: RyanC | Jan 28, 2010 8:21:17 PM
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Apparently it’s tag team time. Is this a Soros/moveon.org tactic? Double up when you can’t handle it alone? To quote you, Ryan – ‘ROFLMAO!!!!’

“And who do either of you think you are?”
I’m Ryan C.
The guy who called you out on your lies.
Posted by: RyanC | Jan 28, 2010 8:22:42 PM
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I can help you with your obsession about people lying to you. Let’s start with your support for obama. Once you admit to yourself that obama is the liar, you will feel much much better.

Wrong again, Ryan. Do you really believe YOUR lies or the lies that people tell you. obama and his people are telling you lies. They took foreign money in their campaign and lied about it.
The lesson for you: Seek help for your delusions.

“It is truly amazing the underhanded tactics the right wing will use – it’s the totalitarian aspects of their belief system. The end justifies the means. Because we are so good, we are allowed to cheat, lie, insult, attack, name call, fabricate – anything as long as the Democrats lose.”
Bingo!

I can help you with your obsession about people lying to you”
Really?
So you’re going to stop lying?
I have no fancy notion that you can convince your fellow right wing posters to do so but if you personally could stop lying that would help.

” You are unwilling to look at the facts”
Let me know when you post any.

“Obama was exactly right.”
I am interested to see how McCain reacts.

Why no respect for Buddhism, Ryan?

What your religion (or any religion) has to do with logic is where I go fuzzy.
Then again what am I apologizing for.
The Buddhism is likely another lie.
Posted by: Ryan C | Jan 28, 2010 8:50:55 PM
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I think you’re confused again. Where did I tie logic and religion? And why are we on this topic. Instead of arguing with people about ideology, why not join with them on things on which you can agree?
We can agree that obama lied or according to you, didn’t keep some of his promises. Do you see how you are justifying his lies? He lied to get support from people like you for political gain. Only he is the only one gaining. You are sitting here defending him day and night only for him to lie to you and give you a carrot now and then. YOU are not getting what you want, he is. Now that’s not fair.
We can both be mad but for different reasons.

Obama and the Democrats were already facing a difficult election year without attacking the Supreme Court. Last time a President did so was in 1937 when FDR tried to pack the court. As a result the Democrats lost 72 seats. Certainly his election will not be that severe unless Obama, Reid and Pelosi continue to allow their egos to go unchecked. Then all bets are off.

Obama and his ilk have stooped (bowed) to new lows. That whole crowd just reeks of old time Chicago politics, union gangsterism, and the indulgence of self-entitlement.
The State of the Union was so steeped in wishful, destructive thinking and mistruths that I’m surprised the smell of sulfur didn’t fill the chamber, and random lightning bolts didn’t dash the dais.
Pelosi is her typical sociopathic self, doing everything to subvert the law and the people. She may be Speaker of the House, but she deserves no courtesy, no civility, because she doesn’t act within the role of her Office but, instead, works over her adversaries like a union thug.
Lefties had better start digging spider holes because the end is nigh for all of you.

Obama and the Democrats were already facing a difficult election year without attacking the Supreme Court. Last time a President did so was in 1937 when FDR tried to pack the court. As a result the Democrats lost 72 seats. ”
Though the court packing controversy was a factor, you also have to take into consideration how many seats the Democrats held going into that election making it hard to defend all the gains.
The Democrats had a 262 to 169 advantage (more 3rd parties then) AFTER losing 72 seats and the GOP gaining 81.

The majority support the President in this – people don’t want corporations or unions ‘buying’ elections through unlimited wealth poured into unlimited political advertising budgets.
Posted by: tierra | Jan 28, 2010 9:15:33 PM
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You must be upset at obama that he and his campaign received $65Million from unions and he in turn is giving them tax free health care. How much do you think pharmaceutical companies gave obama during his campaign? Why did they spend $150M in advertising for obama’s health care? That must make you angry too.

“Well I supported all of Hillary’s domestic policies.”
And yet you attack universal healthcare calling it socialism.
“So less then 3% of all Americans are truly uninsured and all you hear about is that the system is a calamity and it needs to be completely replaced by the great socialized medicine.
Posted by: Jenny | Oct 19, 2009 1:59:02 PM”
So do you no longer support anything that Hillary supported?

Why did they spend $150M in advertising for obama’s health care?
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Listen, the Bush Cheney Republican administration hand in hand with Cheney’s old company Halliburton ‘lost’ $9 BILLION dollars in Iraq.
That is $9 BILLION dollars ‘misplaced’ – through Cheney’s Halliburton buddies. Do you also remember the couple of BILLION dollars ‘misplaced’ by Rumsfeld in the Pentagon?
I am FAR more incensed about that. You’re talking gross mismanagement and corruption in the Bush Republican era.
You need a little historical perspective to go with your ideological bigotry.

The Supreme Court was designed to protect the people from far reaching government, settle disputes between states and to defend the constitution. FDR wanted the constitution to be hung on the wall to be looked at and not to be taken seriously. He wanted all the power that comes with leading a democracy, something the US is NOT. Anything but. We are a constitutional republic with SOME democratic characteristics. All democracies fail.

I see the Obama youth brigade is out in full force tonight attempting to rescue their hero from his dismal performance last night. Keep spinning, my young friends, keep spinning. No one, and I mean no one is buying Obama’s false populist rage. Especially independents. He’s lost them for good, and the Dems are dreading November. How quickly things have changed.

Hey Lori, the American people don’t like your Union deal.

“Looks like we have SEIU, moveon.org and the basement of the white house represented here.”
Again with that persecution complex.
I guess it makes you feel better to think some big bad group kicked your butt versus a a couple of people that know history and how to use google.

Will you liberals be mad when obama moves the KSM trial from Manhattan to another location? Another win for the right wingers another loss for the libs.

“Sorry, but you cannot deduce from my comment that I am for socialized medicine. ”
Did someone else write this then?
“Well I supported all of Hillary’s domestic policies. In fact, I studied her economic blueprint before I met her in Parma.”
Of course Hillary’s domestic policies included more entitlements and a robust public healthcare option that MANDATED everyone have coverage whether thru sign up for public programs or buying their own insurance or insurance through a company.
Do you lie to yourself as much as you do to others?
I imagine that would be a given.

“We are a constitutional republic with SOME democratic characteristics”
Is the whole right-wing ‘republic vs democracy’ fascination justification to potentially attempt to weaken the will of the majority somehow someday?

Nothing new here,Obama is trying to bully and intimidate the other two branches of government.

“You do realize this could be considered a compliment”
Being called a liar and a parrot of right wing talking points is a compliment?
Maybe on FoxNews but not in the real world.

“What was so bad about Haliburton?”
They took in billions in no bid contracts thanks to their CEO being the Vice President of the United States and produced shoddy food, equipment and facilities for our men and women in uniform.

“I’m wondering why, when obama does the same thing w/not prosecuting ACorn and the Black Panthers, that you don’t get the same level of anger.”
Jenny is offering up the entire buffet of right wing bs!
There’s nothing to prosecute ACORN for.
Some of their contract employees forged voter registration forms and by law ACORN had to turn those over to the state.
The Black Panther incident is a hit with the right wing. They love showing two scary looking Black Panthers trying to resurrect dormant racial fears they are sure exist in every white person.

“Yes, in my unbiased, politcally savvy opinion it was a horrible speech”
Who’s the one spinning here? -Exaggerated dower predictions and sarcasm. Your opinion may be savvy, but it is certainly not unbiased.

“Listen, the Bush Cheney Republican administration hand in hand with Cheney’s old company Halliburton ‘lost’ $9 BILLION dollars in Iraq.”
THATS ANOTHER LIBERAL LIE!
The money came from revenues from the United Nations’ former oil-for-food program, oil sales and seized assets — all Iraqi money. The audit did not examine the use of U.S. funds appropriated for reconstruction.

“The money came from revenues from the United Nations’ former oil-for-food program, oil sales and seized assets — all Iraqi money. The audit did not examine the use of U.S. funds appropriated for reconstruction.”
So Haliburton stole billions of Iraqi’s money for their redevelopment after we blew up their country under false pretenses.
That’s so much better.

The supreme court deserves to be calle dout on this decision. They have handed what’s left of american democracy to the highest bidder. Unfortunately they have also provided cover for Obama to divert attention frohis wn miserable performance. the fogies who voted in favor ofthis decision are senile and should resign.

The reason Obama is mad over the reversal of McCain-Fingold by the Supreme Court is because Obama was elected in part because of vast amounts of bundled money from forign countries under the cover of darkness of George Soros 527′s.It was a scam but now the playing field will be more lever and he hates it as much as he hates America.So now when union bosses pour tons of cash toward a democrat, the company that employes the union workers can now pour tons of money to the republicans. Sounds fair to me. 2010 and 2012 should be very interesting.

That is $9 BILLION dollars ‘misplaced’
Posted by: tierra | Jan 28, 2010 9:38:00 PM
What about all the money Obama lost to state districts that don’t even exist? There will never be a full accounting of the 787+ billion dollars.

What about all the money Obama lost to state districts that don’t even exist? There will never be a full accounting of the 787+ billion dollars.
Posted by: Live! From DC! It’s Saturday Night! | Jan 29, 2010 12:18:35 AM
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The problems were NOT AT ALL with money being ‘misplaced’ (as under Bush and Cheney), but rather the wrong numbers for the districts being recorded. And there were few instances of this.
On the other hand, Rumsfeld really did ‘misplace’ a couple of BILLION dollars out of the pentagon (just before 9/11).
And Bush, Cheney and Halliburton really DID ‘lose’ $9 BILLION in Iraq. Where did it end up? In al Qaeda weapons and bombs?
There is a difference between that kind of gross incompetence, and what you IMAGINE might happen with ARRA funds.

of course, most of the country doesn’t know of the animosity Alito holds for Obama, it starts with Obama , voting not to confirm him and continues from there…

Eventually you just have to ignore the hypocrisy, duplicity, and just plain stupidity of the republicans.
‘President Bush didn’t just routinely use the State of the Union to castigate “activist judges.” For years, Bush’s amen corner in the conservative movement threatened judges to bring them in line.
Back in 2005, John Cornyn was one of the GOP standard bearers in the conservative fight against so-called “judicial activism” in the wake of the Republicans’ disastrous intervention in the Terri Schiavo affair.
On April 4th, Cornyn took to the Senate floor to issue a not-too-thinly veiled threat to judges opposing his reactionary agenda.
Just days after the murders of one judge in Atlanta and the family members of another in Chicago, former Texas Supreme Court Justice Cornyn offered his endorsement of judicial intimidation:
“I don’t know if there is a cause-and-effect connection, but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country…And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence.”

Democrats are such power hungry egotistical jerks.

Just another example of the abuse of power by this administration. This administration determines its policy by “What Would Chavez Do?) He chose to intemidate and humiliate those who disagree with him. In addition to being rude is not truthful and for an attorney who taught constitutional law to mistate the Courts ruling is unethical. Home and Change has been replaced with Remorse and Shame!

Since major media outlets regularly refuse to run ads by labor unions, this decision probably won’t have as much of an effect on them, contrary to what the press is reporting.

No one should be above deserved criticism, not even the Supreme Court. As for the Supreme Court being so thin-skinned that they won’t attend the next address, that is saying they have the maturity level of a 3rd grader.
One thing I don’t like about ABC news is the way they give credence to ideas floated by parties not directly involved. If one of the the Justices said they won’t attend, that would be a credible story. This story is sort of like hearsay being allowed at a trial: misleading and not at all revealing reality. This kind of story is not journalism but is tabloid news.

Justice John Paul Stevens in his partial dissent from the majority decision, saying that the decision by the court’s Republican majority “would appear to afford the same protection to multinational corporations controlled by foreigners as to individual Americans” — and the other three justices, appointed by Democrats, noted their agreement.
Why does Stevens think so? Perhaps because he and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg raised that issue with Theodore Olson, the lead counsel for Citizens United (his disreputable comrades from the Clinton wars). When Olson argued that under prior Supreme Court decisions, corporations “are persons entitled to protection under the First Amendment,” Ginsburg asked whether that “includes today’s mega-corporations, where many of the investors may be foreign individuals or entities.” Olson replied that the court had made no distinction “based on the nature of the entity that might own a share of a corporation.”
Ginsburg pressed further. “Nowadays there are foreign interests, even foreign governments, that own not one share but a goodly number of shares.” To which Olson answered, “I submit that the Court’s decisions in connection with the First Amendment and corporations have in the past made no such distinction.”

The lesson, as always, is that rabid, partisan, Socialist, demagoguing community organizers LIE!
—The Court’s ruling in Citizens United concerned the right of labor unions and domestic corporations, including nonprofits, to express their views about candidates in media such as books, films and TV within 60 days of an election. In short, it concerned freedom of speech; in particular, an independent film critical of Hillary Clinton funded by a nonprofit corporation.
While the Court reversed a 1990 decision allowing such a ban, it left standing current restrictions on foreign nationals and “entities.” Also untouched was a 100-year-old ban on domestic corporate contributions to political campaigns to which the president was presumably referring erroneously.—(Wall Street Journal)

Alito should have spoken out those words and fought back at the Evil Joker and his commies. How humiliating that dirty play was by the Evil Joker. Those commies want to play dirty, play dirty towards them, too. If those commies with those “smiley faces” aren’t stopped, via the voting process, they will eventually destroy our economy and country. Watching and listening to that ridiculous speech, was sickening. I had to turn the channel before it was over.

Obama = Bush = Criminal

We are no longer ‘ignorant of the facts’. We judge Obama not on what he says but what he does. His III Reich style propaganda machine is no longer able to deceive us. After this pathological liar insulted us and the supreme court justices he owes us an apology. We don’t demand one knowing well that what spews from his mouth is worthless garbage.

Boy, this BO character is thin-skinned. BO, here is some advice – next time you insult the Supreme Court during a SOTU address, make sure you get your facts straight. Otherwise, you appear like a complete imbecile.

The current situation (before the recent ruling favored the incumbents), hence the nickname of McCain-Feingold was the “Incumbent Protection Act.” Mr. Obama received a lot of questionable money coming in from foreign sources. I suspect they object because this ruling in favor of free speech takes away some of their current advantage.

Forgot O Yes Not with Biden either or Pale low sie either,I watched it and all she did was clap ,and stood up and down,what a fake this woman is sad but true.

By 2/3 vote the US Congress can override a US Supreme Court case. There was a case where Congress passes a law making it a federal felony to participate in a lynching. The Supreme Court held that Congress did not have the power granted by the US Constitution is exercising such a law. The Congress by 2/3 majority vote overturn the US Supreme Court decision in the case and re-enacted the law.
For your information and on the money, influence and power taking over our nation, Government, and constitution, a vote by Obama and a 2/3 majority by both Houses of Congress would veto the US Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC.

The very first comment in this blog, by buen, is troubling. Congress doesn’t have the authority to overturn constitutional decisions of the Court. If the Court has interpreted a statute, then Congress can respond with new law. The Court’s interpretations of the Constitution, as was the case in Citizens United, can only be changed by future Supreme Court decision or by Constitutional amendment. Check your law before you add your less than two cents of opinion.