Brian Bolduc writing for National Review Online:
[Last] Monday, President Obama admonished the Supreme Court to uphold his health-care law, lest it overturn the legislation in a fit of “judicial activism.” The president told reporters: “I’m 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.”
Last year, however, the president took the “extraordinary step” of declaring “a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress” unconstitutional. In February 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder sent Speaker ofthe House John Boehner a letter notifying him that the administration would no longer argue in behalf of the Defense of Marriage Act.
On September 21, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed DOMA into law. It passed both houses of Congress by wide margins (342–67 in the House and 85–14 in theSenate) — much wider margins than Obamacare got (219–212 in the House and 60–39 votes in the Senate). The problem, of course, is that the administration disagrees with DOMA: The law enshrines traditional marriage in federal law and allows states to ignore same-sex marriages approved by other states.
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It's become really difficult to decide who is worse; Obama, or those individuals that cheer whenever the Marxist-in-chief assaults the rights of those who disagree with them.
I remember immediately thinking of DOMA when I heard the president's statements about his healthcare bill. Brian does a nice job elaborating on the hypocrisy.
There are some excellent comments from the marriage supporters at the bottom of article that I think other marriage supporters will enjoy.
The Loving Corollary to Godwin's Law: http://www.federalistjournal.com/fedblog/2012/04/09/the-loving-corollary-to-godwins-law/
It's great to see the good Pres backpedaling (or in his words "clarifying"). He thank we too dum to understood what he ment. Sorry Mr. Pres, we knew *exactly* what you meant. That's why you're being criticized.
Reading the comments under the article it's fascinating that so many folks on the left don't understand the purpose of the 3 branches of government, or even that there ARE 3 branches of government.
Case in point, something I read often is people making comments that Holder and the Pres have decided DOMA is unconstitutional, therefore they shouldn't defend it. I expect to see the same comment made under this thread.
Read this article
Basically, the President declared that DOMA was unconstitutional because a bunch of fudge packers threw a hissy fit.
Clearly he was pointing out the hypocrisy of the right - but they're all too stupid to realize it.
Very interesting article, Michael. Thanks for sharing.