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:
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.
And who is he kidding by asserting that Obamacare “passed by a strong majority?” Every American knows that Obamacare only became law after the administration bribed every last Democratic holdout and pulled every trick in the legislative book. As a result, Obamacare has been wildly unpopular ever since it became law.
And not that this should matter when it comes to a law’s constitutionality, every poll taken on the subject has found that majorities of Americans already believe the law is unconstitutional:
- A recent Reason-Rupe poll found thats 62 percent of Americans believe it is unconstitutional for Congress to mandate the purchase of health insurance.
- The most recent Hill poll found that 50 percent of Americans believe the law should be struck down.
- An April 2nd, Rasmussen poll found that 54 percent of likely U.S. Voters at least somewhat favor repeal of the health care law, and 41 percent strongly favor it.
- And, according to Gallup 72 percent of Americans believe the individual mandate is unconstitutional.
Americans do not like Obamacare, they believe it is unconstitutional, and they want the Supreme Court to overturn it. No wonder Obama feels the need to tell himself how confident he is he’ll prevail.
Campaign 2012
Veepstakes: Buzzfeed posted video of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., directing the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to create rules for limiting carbon emissions in 2007.
Around the Bigs
The Wall Street Journal, The Worst Economic Recovery in History: Since the second half of 2009, the U.S. economy has grown at a rate of 2.4%, a full percentage point below average long-term growth.
The Washington Post, Solar Trust of America seeks bankruptcy protection: Solar Trust of America, the owner of the world’s largest solar power plant and a keystone of the Obama administration’s efforts to promote solar energy, filed for bankruptcy yesterday.
Detroit Free Press, Chevy Volt production to be cut in July: General Motors plans to halt production of the Chevrolet Volt at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant for three weeks in July, instead of the traditional two-week shutdown. The plant is currently closed for a five-week stretch because auto dealers had a surplus of the plug-in extended-range electric vehicle.
The Washington Post, Euro unemployment spikes to record 10.8 percent: Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics office, said unemployment in the euro zone rose to 10.8 percent in February from 10.7 percent the previous month. Greece, Portugal and Ireland — the three countries that have already received a debt bailout — had unemployment rates of 21 percent, 15 percent and 14.7 percent, respectively.
The New York Times, Small Banks Shift Charters to Avoid U.S. as Regulator: Since Dodd-Frank became law, an increasing number of the nation’s more than 600 savings and loan associations are trying to become credit unions, and many others are choosing state oversight.
Gallup, U.S. Voters’ Top Election Issues Don’t Include Birth Control: Most voters in the United States say issues such as health care, unemployment, the federal deficit, international issues, and gas prices are important to their presidential vote, but less than half say the same about federal birth control policies.
Righty Playbook
The Heritage Foundation‘s Alyene Senger shows how Obamacare adds $17 trillion to long-term unfunded government spending.
AEI’s James Pethokoukis notes that U.S. oil production could overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia’s this decade.
The Corner‘s Patrick Brennan shares Paul Ryan’s prebuttal of Obama’s response to his budget today.
Lefty Playbook
Talking Points Memo reports that Obama will call the Ryan budget, “thinly veiled Social Darwinism” in a speech hosted by the Associated Press in Washington, D.C., today.
Jonathan Chait criticizes Romney for calling the economy “simply the product of all the nations’ businesses added together.”
The New Republic‘s Jonathan Cohn says Obama’s attack on the Supreme Court will fail unless he makes it into “a pattern that started with Bush v. Gore and Citizens United.”
