Obama Threatens U.S. Supreme Court

Monday, in one of the most bizarre, rambling, unprecedented actions by a sitting U.S. President, President Obama quite literally threatened conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justices by warning them that rejection of his pet project, the much hated Obamacare, would be an act of "judicial activism."   Conservatives have been ranting against this for years to no avail.  It appears that judicial activism is considered persona non grata when it goes against the Socialist agenda.  Obamacare is the most dangerous overreach of federal government activism since the Great Depression. The Obama Administration lawyers could not adequately make their case that the individual mandate is constitutional to the SCOTUS. Even one liberal justice, Justice Sotomayor, was skeptical of the individual mandate (well, before she apparently got a phone call and then quickly fell in line).

There is no excuse for the President of a supposedly free and Democratic country to intimidate and threaten Supreme Court justices.  President Obama lectured that they "...were not elected."  I wonder if our beloved President considered that the conservative justices on the U.S. Court of Appeals, the one that stated the individual mandate was constitutional, were not elected either.  I did not see him mention that at all.  This is the same President who took a shot at the SCOTUS during his State of the Union address that enraged Justice Samuel Alito.  Obama's "chickens are coming home to roost" now.  He doesn't like the taste of his own medicine.

There is simply no room for this kind of talk from the Office of the President of the United States.  There is no precedent for thuggery in the Oval Office.  What we saw Monday was a case of Chicago politics gone wild.  The SCOTUS is trying to apply the U.S. Constitution to the law known as Obamacare.  Whether or not that will happen, we will not know until sometime in June.  What really bothers me is that this President should have known that the individual mandate was an overreach of the bounds of the federal government into the lives of private citizens.  He was allegedly a constitutional professor at an elite university at one time.  So, why push this healthcare law down the throats of the American people (which a clear two-thirds majority want repealed)?  Because President Obama doesn't really care about the rule of law.  He never has cared.  He is proving it daily.  He has proven he has no regard for Congress by sidestepping Congressional authority on amnesty for illegal aliens.  Monday he proved he has no regard for the highest court in the land, the U.S. Supreme Court.