activism and not say that is the most activist court you can imagine. you can t be sure of anything on the law when you have a supreme court that has shown in perhaps the most important case in american history that they are prepared to ignore the law. this is not a legal call at heart in my view. this is feeling like bush v. gore in terms of the size of the case. there is a great line where he says listen, i know normally what a court does is you take out the part you don t like. in this case the individual mandate and you leave the rest of the law standing. i m not going do this this time but this is very unique. there is an aligning there. this is a unique case. in these very highly politicized cases where judges go more with their partisan affiliations
may be able to force that. on the other hand, you know, when he went and took over the auto companies, he internationalized g.m. and chrysler, he wasn t worried about the law standing in his way, where at the time he overwrote all the precedents. and basically stuck it to bondholders for the union. it s not been an obstacle to what he wants to do in the past, especially in a crisis when he feels americans will give him leeway on that. but it isn t a good precedent, particularly since the oil pollution act of 1990 passed after the exxon valdez has a cap on damages of about $75 million. here we are talking about billions. you have can t enact it roh actively but he will try to force it using the weight of public opinion behind him. another poll from the public policy poll in
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her speak the body blows aimed directly at the president seemed to be worth every penny. he is a conservative blogger for the national review. sarah palin s great skill as a rhettry tigs is the ability to poke fun at those she sees as her enemies. sometimes it s gently poking fun of them. sometimes it s done with a hard, sarcastic edge. they know we re at war and to win that war we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lecturn. it gets to something a lot of progressives have found objectionable about president obama, the perception he is analytical when he should be aggressive. how is the hopey changey stuff working out for you? reporter: when palin teased about the president s attachment to the teleprompter it s bigger than a charismatic guy with a teleprompter. reporter: it seemed to bite
reihan salam is a conservative blogger for the national review. sarah palin s great skill is the ability to poke fun at those she sees as her enemies. sometimes it s gently poking fun of them. sometimes it s done with a hard, sarcastic edge. they know we re at war and to win that war we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern. the idea we need a commander in chief and not a professor in law gets to something a lot of progressives have found objectionable about president obama. the perception that he s very analytical when he should be more aggressive. how is the hopey changey stuff working out for you? reporter: when palin teased about the president s attachment to the teleprompter it s bigger than a charismatic guy with a teleprompter. reporter: it it seemed to bite back a bit, given palin s own cheat sheet exposed on her hand. paying attention to something like hand-gate works directly