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Next Week’s News Cycle Will be Insane~Keep your eye on….

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SUPREME COURT/OBAMACARE

http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/dean-clancy/supreme-court-to-mull-obamacare

The Court will hear oral arguments on Monday, March 26, through Wednesday, March 28.

We expect written transcripts and audio recordings to be published each day on the Court’s website — www.supremecourt.gov — a few hours after each argument period has concluded.

The Court will secretly decide the case on March 30 and publish its decision on or around Monday, June 25.

Schedule

Monday, March 26, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.:

Oral arguments: Does the Tax Anti-Injunction Act bar judicial review of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act until the mandate takes effect in 2014?

Tuesday, March 27,10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon:

Oral arguments: Is the individual mandate constitutional?

Wednesday, March 28, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.:

Oral arguments: Is the mandate severable from the rest of the law?

Wednesday, March 28, 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.:

Oral arguments: Is the Medicaid expansion constitutional?

Friday, March 30:

Audio transcripts of the week’s oral arguments released.

Court decides the case in secret conference.

Monday, June 25:

Court publishes its decision (tentative).

Neal Boortz will have a Jamie Dupree covering the case live

Supreme Court Ticket

By Jamie Dupree

Christmas came early for this reporter when the email arrived from the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday confirming that I have a seat with my name on it for the three days of arguments on the Obama health reform law.

“This note is to confirm a press seat for the oral arguments in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act cases on March 26, 27, and 28,” the email read.

http://www.boortz.com/weblogs/jamie-dupree/2012/mar/22/supreme-court-ticket/

Other reading at Neal’s site

http://www.boortz.com/weblogs/nealz-nuze/

Reading Assignment from Neal-Excellent Commentary by Sowell

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/03/20/race_and_rhetoric_113538.html

March 20, 2012

Race and Rhetoric

By Thomas Sowell

One of the things that turned up, during a long-overdue cleanup of my office, was an old yellowed copy of the New York Times dated July 24, 1992. One of the front-page headlines said: “White-Black Disparity in Income Narrowed in 80′s, Census Shows.”

The 1980s? Wasn’t that the years of the Reagan administration, the “decade of greed,” the era of “neglect” of the poor and minorities, if not “covert racism”?

More recently, during the administration of America’s first black president, a 2011 report from the Pew Research Center has the headline, “Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks and Hispanics.”    [snip]

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-AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY- A Brief Analysis of Why Our Political System Has Lost Sight of the Common Good~William Boe~IV: A FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP

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IV: A FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP

A. The Test of Leadership:

The test of presidential leadership is not whether he can campaign and win an election. The test is can he govern? In order to govern, he must have the will and capacity to navigate the currents and eddies of the partisan divide, to avoid the temptation to be either a bystander or a dictator, and to forge a bi-partisan consensus on issues vital to our nation’s future. This has nothing to do with celebrity, speeches and access.

Fundamentally, it is a matter of character. Ronald Reagan was one of our greatest presidents, even though mainstream media sought to portray him as an amiable dunce. He had the demonstrable ability to forge a bi-partisan consensus, by working with leaders of the other party like Tip O’Neil. By contrast, Jimmy Carter was a brilliant man and one of our worst presidents. Where then does Mr. Obama fit in that continuum? Clearly, he is at the Carter end. His reaction to the leadership challenge is upside down, to wit: When Mr. Obama has the leverage, he is inclined to push partisan advantage to its bitter extreme, rather than forge a bi-partisan consensus. After all, that is the Chicago Way. However, when you try to do this on a national stage it does not work well. I can think of no better example than ObamaCare which was fatally flawed from the beginning. It has proven to be a disastrous piece of legislation, bitterly opposed by the American People, which led to a bloodbath for his political party, and a given the opposition no incentive to work with him. When Mr. Obama does not have the leverage, he is inclined to hold himself aloof from the process, and take cheap shots. Later, when he is compelled to intervene, he assumes a” my-way-or-the-highway” attitude, which leads to impasse. At that point, he is inclined to back out of the process and exploit the impasse for political advantage. I can think of no better example of this than the way he handled the debt crisis. Continue reading →