U.S. District Judge: Obama in 'Contempt'

In the wake of the ruling by Florida U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson that Obamacare is Unconstitutional in its entirety, the administration could be ruled in contempt if it continues to ignore the decision but it's already been ruled in contempt by another U.S. District Judge, this one in New Orleans. After a ruling this past summer that the Department of Interior had to lift the drilling ban in the Gulf of Mexico, the administration played games by refusing to issue permits. The judge has ruled Obama and company to be in contempt.

Via Bloomberg:

The Obama Administration acted in contempt by continuing its deepwater-drilling moratorium after the policy was struck down, a New Orleans judge ruled.

Interior Department regulators acted with “determined disregard” by lifting and reinstituting a series of policy changes that restricted offshore drilling, following the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, U.S. District Judge, Martin Feldman of New Orleans ruled yesterday.

“Each step the government took following the court’s imposition of a preliminary injunction showcases its defiance,” Feldman said in the ruling.

“Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the re-imposition of a second blanket and substantively identical moratorium, and in light of the national importance of this case, provide this court with clear and convincing evidence of the government’s contempt,” Feldman said.

This ruling may expedite efforts on the part of the state of Florida to petition Vinson's court for a contempt ruling relative to the administration's refusal to cease and desist relative to the implementation of Obamacare. If Obama keeps this up, he'll have multiple contempt orders to deal with. Judges, regardless of ideological leanings, do belong to a fraternity and it's quite likely that said fraternity will not take kindly to an administration that ignores the judicial branch with such reckless abandon.

It wouldn't be all that surprising if this administration were to ignore a Supreme Court ruling that Obamacare is Unconstitutional. I think it's safe to say that such a scenario would justify impeachment proceedings.

What's that saying about pride coming right before the fall?

h/t Gateway Pundit

VIDEO: CONGRESSMAN CONFIRMS SOFT GENOCIDE IN CALIFORNIA

Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA) appeared on Glenn Beck's March 19th television show to discuss what's going on with the water supply for the San Joaquin valley being partially turned on in return for the votes of blue dog Democrats Jim Costa and Dennis Cardoza, congressmen whose districts are in that valley.

Not only does Nunes confirm that this deal is taking place but he compares the Obama administration with that of both Saddam Hussein and Robert Mugabe, two leaders who also withheld water from their people. Later in the interview, Beck gives Nunes a chance to clarify what he meant by such a comparison. Nunes only re-emphasized it. Someone please explain to me how this is not soft genocide.

For more background on the situation in the San Joaquin valley, click here.

Meanwhile, here's the video of the interview Beck had with Devin Nunes, via the latter's YouTube channel:

NEW LOW FOR BACKROOM DEALS?

Is it possible that the health care votes of two congressmen in California could be bought with the promise to turn the water back on for farmers in their state?

This story began in December of 2008, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service became responsible for imposing water restrictions on farmers in the San Joaquin valley in California. The reason? To prevent harm to an endangered 2" fish known as the Delta Smelt.

Via the Wall Street Journal from September 9th, 2009:

The result has already been devastating for the state's farm economy. In the inland areas affected by the court-ordered water restrictions, the jobless rate has hit 14.3%, with some farming towns like Mendota seeing unemployment numbers near 40%. Statewide, the rate reached 11.6% in July, higher than it has been in 30 years. In August, 50 mayors from the San Joaquin Valley signed a letter asking President Obama to observe the impact of the draconian water rules firsthand.

The article also cites Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's attempt to get Obama to label the region a federal disaster area to no avail. Senator Dianne Feinstein didn't or was unable to get the Department of the Interior to turn the water back on either.

I found this excerpt from the Journal particularly disturbing. I fail to see it as anything other than soft genocide.

...the livelihoods of tens of thousands of humans are also at stake. If the Obama Administration wants to help, it can take up Governor Schwarzenegger's request that it revisit the two biological opinions that are hanging farmers and farm workers out to dry.

Ok, now let's bring this up to present day. Believe it or not, there is actually speculation - no doubt fueled by the high number of bribes for health care votes - via an article from Investor Business Daily:

The water spigots are back on, at least temporarily, in California's Central Valley. Turned off to protect a tiny fish, they happen to be in the districts of two congressmen "undecided" on health care reform.

One could chalk it up to good fortune or just good constituent service. But in the middle of a contentious health care debate marked by Cornhusker Kickbacks and Louisiana Purchases, we may be forgiven if we find an announcement by the Department of the Interior regarding California's water supply a tad too coincidental.

That would be the same Department of Interior that Schwarzenegger wouldn't approach and Feinstein promised to? Now we learn that the Dept. of the Interior has decided to move up such an announcement from March 22nd to March 16th, the week of the contentious health care vote? Why? The claim is that it was due to the "urging" of politicians, two of whom are House Democrats that have been listed as "undecided" on the health care vote. The other includes Feinstein, who has allegedly been pushing for this. The timing is very curious.

According to the Interior announcement, "Typically (the Bureau of) Reclamation would release the March allocation update around March 22nd, but moved up the announcement at the urging of Senators (Diane) Feinstein and (Barbara) Boxer, and Congressmen (Jim) Costa and (Dennis) Cardoza."

Blue Dog Democrats Costa, who represents California's 20th Congressional District (Fresno), and Cardoza, who represents the 18th (Stockton to Modesto), are both listed as "undecided" in the upcoming vote on health care reform, whether it be on the Senate bill itself or the "deem and pass" resolution known as the Slaughter rule, after Rules Committee Chairman Louise Slaughter.

Both Costa and Cardoza were "undecided" this past December as well:

To get them out of the "undecided" column in last December's House vote, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership promised $500 million for a new University of California-Merced Medical School. Costa and Cardoza then voted "aye."

If this is what it appears it could be, the Obama administration has had the power or influence necessary to turn the water back on all along but didn't. It would also mean the Obama administration has been holding the threat of soft genocide over the heads of Americans.

Read it all.