DID IT REALLY TAKE HIM A WEEK TO REALIZE THE LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL?:

Obama Implies Rejection of Bonus Tax Plan (STEVEN R. HURST, Mar. 23, 2009, AP)

President Barack Obama wagered significant political capital on Sunday as he bucked a highly popular House measure to slap a punitive 90 percent tax on bonuses to big earners at financial institutions already deeply in hock to taxpayers.

Obama defended his stance by saying the tax would be unconstitutional and that he would not "govern out of anger."

It can be argued, though disingenuously, that certain provisions of the Constitution are opaque. But it's not possible to misconstrue this one: "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 23, 2009 6:36 AM