Ann Coulter:Verilli Not Administration's Worst Lawyer After All / Thomas Sowell on Obama's ability to say "things that are demonstrably false, and make them sound not only plausible but inspiring".

Ann Coulter  "Alas, we still have Rick Santorum saying Obamacare is the same as what he calls "Romneycare"; the otherwise brilliant Mickey Kaus sniffing that if states can mandate insurance purchases, then we're "not talking about some basic individual liberty to not purchase stuff" (no, just the nation's founding document, which protects "basic individual liberties" by putting constraints on Congress); and the former law professor, Barack Obama, alleging that a "good example" of judicial activism would be the Supreme Court (in his words, "a group of people") overturning "a duly constituted and passed law."

"I don't know how a court could overturn a law that hasn't been "passed." Otherwise, it wouldn't be a law, it would be a bill. If it hasn't even been "constituted," it wouldn't be anything at all.

"Of course the courts can overturn laws -- constituted and passed alike! If anything, the Supreme Court isn't striking down enough laws.

....What liberals figured out -- and were mendacious enough to exploit -- is that there is no obvious recourse for the other branches if the Supreme Court issues an insane ruling. So, beginning in the 1960s, liberals on the court started issuing insane rulings on a regular basis."...

 

....http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/

Thomas Sowell: Political Word Games  "Nor is it likely that Barack Obama has never heard of it. He has a degree from Harvard Law School and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. In what must be one of the most famous Supreme Court cases in history 

Marbury v. Madison - in 1803 -Chief Justice John Marshall established the principle that the Supreme Court can declare acts of Congress null and void if these acts violate the Constitution.

They have been doing so for more than two centuries. It is the foundation of American constitutional law. There is no way that Barack Obama has never heard of it or really believes it to be “unprecedented” after two centuries of countless precedents.

"In short, he is simply lying." 

...."But what is the Constitution’s Bill of Rights supposed to protect the ordinary citizen from? Government institutions! If judges are to defer to the very institutions that the Bill of Rights tries to protect the citizen from, what is the point of having a Bill of Rights?"*

...."Obama’s lies are just as big but not as visible, and the media that exposed Nixon is covering for Obama."  (Emphasis added)

 Former Obama Con Law Student Embarassed by His Former Teacher’s Ignorance  Ironically, that same student now clerks for this judge.  More on Judge Jerry Smith here

* Just wanted to make sure you saw this.

White House in damage control over Obama Supreme Court remarks; From Lucianne, 

who states that "O's own mouth may be the author of his eventual demise."

'What a Bully President Obama Has Suddenly Become,' Says SC Gov. "The man who took office on a promise of 'hope and change' is now bullying people to get his way, Haley told Fox & Friends. "He's bullying his way on Paul Ryan, saying he's not coming up with an adequate budget. Now he's bullying the Supreme Court, saying no, they won't reverse (the health care law) --they won't go against us on this."

Volokh Conspiracy:  Impeach John Roberts? " Professor David Dow of the University of Houston argues that Supreme Court justices should be impeached if the individual mandate is struck down because “Supreme Court justices who undermine the principles of the Constitution ought to be impeached.” " Much comment and background at this site.

Rush Limbaugh: Ryan Reacts to Obama's Demagoguery  Paul Ryan takes each point made by Obama and rebuts it.  "I don't even really know how to describe all of this stuff, but I think he's just getting sort of desperate and demagogic.  And it's just part and parcel of the kind of campaign I think we're gonna expect this fall."

Democrats and energy

Germany Cuts Solar Subsidies, Has Its Solyndra Moment

Using the government’s generous subsidies, Germans installed 7.5 gigawatts of photovoltaic capacity last year, more than double what the government had deemed “acceptable.” It is estimated that this increase alone will lead to a $260 hike in the average consumer’s annual power bill.

 "As Winston Churchill famously said, “All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.” The U.S. should learn from its subsidy mistakes and end all energy subsidies. The best way for the government to promote energy exploration is to open access to locked-up resources and reduce onerous regulations. Only then will energy sources compete on their own merits, unleashed from government restraint and freed from government intervention."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/04/04/98083

Obama has the "best" energy policy? C'mon, Joe!   "But to the Obama administration, to be the “best” means to weaken big oil by weaning Americans off of their product and artificially boosting the demand from “green” sources of energy.  Being able to stand up in front of a now-bankrupt Solyndra is better than allowing oil companies to rake in record profits.  Here’s just a smattering of headlines from Obama’s “green” industry:"... Neal Boortz.


 Victor Davis Hanson: The Second Oil Revolution  "The Canadian tar sands, deepwater exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, horizontal drilling off the eastern and western American coastlines, fracking in once-untapped sites in North Dakota, and new pipelines from Alaska and Canada could double North American gas and oil production within a decade.
"Given that North America in general and the United States in particular might soon be completely autonomous in natural-gas production and without much need of imported oil within a decade, life as we have known it for nearly the last half-century would change radically.
"Take the Middle East. The United States currently devotes about $50 billion of its military budget to patrolling the Persian Gulf and stationing thousands of troops in the region."
Who of us can disagree with this argument for opening up American oil sources? But any administration attempting to do this, even with a sympathetic Congress will find their efforts tied up for years by environmentalist's law suits. TD

It’s Not ‘All of the Above’ After All   "So now we know that when President Obama says he wants an “all of the above” strategy for energy, “the above” doesn’t include the energy source in which America has the biggest advantage over the rest of the world: coal."
 Obama Subsidizes Dirty Chinese Coal Power  "The United States may be the first country in history to colonize itself, reducing the world’s most advanced and complex economy to a raw-materials supplier for sophisticated manufacturing economies abroad."


The EPA Abuses First, Apologizes Later  "The statute is so vague that the only natural way to read it is as a grant of power for EPA to commandeer anybody — totally at random if EPA so chooses — and force him to clean up, at his own expense, a problem that he can immediately prove he had nothing to do with."