Maybe it wasn't "an intemperate outburst" after all.... - Granite Grok

Maybe it wasn’t “an intemperate outburst” after all….

Yesterday I had THIS to say about President Obama (courtesy of Grokster Skip Murphy provoking me). I condemned myself, saying it was an “intemperate outburst.” But on second thought….

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger—deputy editor of the paper’s editorial page—has this to say in his column, “The Supreme Court Lands in Oz”:

It appears to be unprecedented for a U.S. president to have attacked the Supreme Court before it handed down its decision….Many are saying the president should know Marbury v. Madison. He does. It doesn’t matter. If something gets in  his way, Barack Obama hammers it—whether courts or Congress. The left likes that. It remains to find out if the rest of the country wants the judicial and legislative branches subordinated to a national leader.

In other words, President Obama is a menace to America and its Constitution. He seeks to be a presidente rather than a president. His models are Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Fidel Castro of Cuba, or any other South American caudillo seizing power “in the name of the people.”

Says Henninger:

Mr. Obama’s notion of judicial review diminishes all  the members of any court, not just its conservatives. It doesn’t help the always difficult struggle for an independent judiciary in other countries if an American president is issuing Venezuela-like statements on U.S. courts….The 2,700-page Affordable care Act [“Obamacare”] at best won’t work very well. At worst, its house-of-cards complexity will damage nearly anything it touches—citizens, doctors, medical institutions. One only has to venture inside the law’s text to discover why….In the original “Oz,” the wizard voluntarily abandons the yellow brick road, discovers humility and returns to earth. The ending in our version will require an election.

You can read Henninger’s full column HERE.

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