How confident is President Obama that the Supreme Court will uphold his signature domestic accomplishment? So confident, he felt the need to tell the press about it no less than five times yesterday:
With respect to health care, I’m actually — continue to be confident that the Supreme Court will uphold the law. … Ultimately, 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. And I’d just remind conservative commentators that for years what we’ve heard is, the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism or a lack of judicial restraint — that an unelected group of people would somehow overturn a duly constituted and passed law. Well, this is a good example. And I’m pretty confident that this Court will recognize that and not take that step. … We are confident that this will be over — that this will be upheld. I’m confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld.
Obama’s attack on “an unelected group of people” is pretty rich, considering that the only way his health care law plans to reduce health spending is by empowering 15 unelected bureaucrats to set wage and price controls for the entire health care industry.
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