Bachmann: ''Why is it that the big decisions always get made by the Supreme Court?...''

[Tx4obama]

Yesterday during the GOP Thanksgiving forum debate Michelle Bachmann said:

"Why is it that the big decisions always get made by the Supreme Court? They’re not the law-makers."


And she said something similar back in September: http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201109290004


Michelle Bachmann should NOT be a member of Congress let alone be running for the office of the presidency!

[treestar]

1. These people are not having a contest to be chosen

nominee so much as they are having a contest to prove which of them is the dumbest.

[Bluzmann57]

2. Someone should ask her about a particular SC decision

You know, the one in 2000 in which a (P)resident got selected. Maybe in this particular case she has a point. Any other time? No. She needs to bow out, gracefully or otherwise.
I just thought of something though. She may not even realize that bush v Gore was a Supreme Court decision.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. LOL!

And this ninny went to law school?

Michele. Go dig around in your attic and try to find your first-year Con Law textbook. And when you find it, please reread Marbury v. Madison and report back to us.

[Brother Buzz]

10. I don't believe honest Constitutional law was taught at Oral Roberts University

Rather, they were indoctrinated with classes like Christianity and the Constitution.

[monmouth]

4. I wouldn't let her preside over our local PTA. We knew the names

of the SC Justices in the fourth grade and knew when and why you took cases before them. We used to giggle in class 'cause of Frankfurter, but we still learned it...She really is an incompetent..

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. "And why are they dressed in black? Are they witches?"

You know she's thinking it.

[polichick]

11. LOL - no doubt!

[elleng]

6. DUH!

:wtf:

[Turbineguy]

7. That's one of those questions that answers itself.

In her case anyway.

[Tx4obama]

8. And also during the debate last night, regarding the Supreme Court, Herman Cain said ....

Herman Cain said he would “overturn” the Supreme Court if they strike down the Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA).

[Raine]

9. Just when I think she can't top herself on dumb comments

she always has another one just as stupid to put out there. :silly:

[DCBob]

12. Its almost as if she is trying to sound as stupid as possible.

if so, she is succeeding.

[Spider Jerusalem]

13. Interpretation of the law and determination of whether laws are constitutional...

IS the job of the Supreme Court. Someone whould school Bachmann and the rest of the GOP on the Constitution (protip: there's more to it than the Second Amendment) and the separation of powers.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

14. Rephrased as "is constitutional democracy superior to other forms", that's a fair question.

The answer to what she asks is easy: the supreme law of the US is the constitution, which puts ultimate power in the hands of the SCOTUS and not the government or the electorate.

Or, to be more accurate, it puts penultimate power in the hands of the Supreme court; the government and the electorate maintain ultimate power in the form of constitutional change, but it's very hard for them to exercise it, whereas it's impossible for the SCOTUS *not* to exercise their penultimate power of constitutional enforcement/interpretation.


Whether that's a better system than one where all the laws are easier to change is open to debate.

[JoePhilly]

15. They hate the notion of an objective judge.

[Bake]

16. Did she even go to law school??? Helloooo? Marbury v. Madison???

It is DISTINCTLY the province of the Supreme Court to say what the law IS!!!!!

What a boob.

Bake

[SteveG]

17. Has this cretin (and I apologize to cretin's world wide)

ever read Article III of the Constitution?