Oh, the pearl clutching!
The
outrage!
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday accused President Obama of seeking to "imtimidate" and "browbeat" the Supreme Court into upholding his health care reform law. [...]
"Only someone who would browbeat the Court during the State of the Union, and whose administration stifled speech during the health care debate, would try to intimidate the Court while it's deliberating one of the most consequential cases of our time. This president's attempt to intimidate the Supreme Court falls well beyond distasteful politics; it demonstrates a fundamental lack of respect for our system of checks and balances."
The feigned, head-shaking
disappointment.
"I don't think that would work," Romney said during an interview on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" in which he was asked whether he believes Obama is trying to intimidate the Supreme Court justices into making a decision that would favor the controversial health care overhaul.
"I also think it's quite a curious turn of events to start complaining about an activist court," Romney added.
The
reality:
Jeff Shesol, whose book, “Supreme Power,” chronicles FDR’s battle with the Supreme Court over the New Deal, emails me: “By historical standards, it was more of a nudge than an attack.”
But you can't expect Republicans to let a perfectly good opportunity to gin up some false outrage pass them by.