Excerpts from the Politico article (full article found here):
POLITICO's Kasie Hunt, who's in the House chamber, reports that Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words "not true" when President Barack Obama criticized the Supreme Court's campaign finance decision.
"Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections," Obama said. "Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong."
The shot of the black-robed Supreme Court justices, stone-faced, was priceless.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stood up behind the justices and clapped vigorously while Alito shook his head and quietly mouthed his discontent.
“The President’s swipe at the Supreme Court was a breach of decorum, and represents the worst of Washington politics — scapegoating ‘special interest’ bogeymen for all that ails Washington in attempt to silence the diverse range of speakers in our democracy,” said Bradley A. Smith, chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics, in The Corner blog on Nationalreview.com.
And from MichelleMalkin.com:
The Shout-Outs Obama Forgot
By Michelle Malkin • January 28, 2010 09:47 AM
Reader Karen raises a good point about President Obama’s missing shout-outs last night:
Greetings from Tampa, Fl:
No one in the media has brought up the ultimate snub from Pres. Obama during his speech last night. He gave a shout out to Michelle Obama- twice, Joe Biden- once, but to the two officers who brought down the Ft. Hood terrorist and who were sitting right next to the First Lady, he said nothing.
Why?…You would think in one of the most tragic events that happened on our soil since 9/11, Pres. Obama would have addressed them. We all know well Pres. Bush would have.
Commenter granite begged to differ.
Scratching out "forgot" and substituting "did not give", granite commented:
I doubt that it was “forgetting” on his part.
Unfortunately, I have to agree. This President has had more open disdain for the military, Heartland Americans, tea-party patriots, Christians, hard-working truck-drivers, and anyone who dares to question him, which now includes the Supreme Court, it seems, than any other President in history. It's inexcusable that he would honestly feel such disdain for all that is good in America, but his classless demonstration of such disdain is truly embarrassing.
I am so thankful people are finally waking up to the nightmare that has always been Obama. We can't let up. There were times I didn't believe we could survive all the destruction this prez would do. But now, who would believe that Obamacare could be stopped? It now seems a possibility now that Dems have fallen to a 59-41 MINORITY in the Senate. That was the priceless comment from a news reporter that later became the butt of a joke made by Stephen Colbert, and shown on FOX News:
"It's such a key Senate seat. Moving Democrats into what's essentially, you know, a bit of a minority."
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