Making Him Pay
Okay, I would feel sorry for Chief Justice John Roberts but I just can’t. Even blind squirrels can find acorns, and he voted right one damn time. Like Thelma says, “Just because he breath smells like bananas doesn’t mean he’s Tarzan.”
Wiping that grin off his face
Roberts is learning a very valuable lesson: he lays down with dogs.
Slimy leaks from inside the court, which more than likely didn’t come from Sonia Sotomayor, paint Roberts as everything from crazy, to drug induced delirium, to the suggestion that he’s pure poopie del pollo and probably was bought-off.
Godforsaken old Scalia was furious about it and since he couldn’t bring himself to attack another old white guy, he lashed out at the closest black guy around and that just happened to be President Obama.
The rightwing will never forgive Roberts, and if he has a hair on his butt he’ll never go back to them. If he has any sense of decency, he will apologize for Citizens United, tell everybody that he voted incorrectly only because Clarence Thomas was telling some very distracting dirty jokes.
Hell, they had Bush tear up the Presidency, John Boehner fry the Congress and now they are depending on Scalia to hold the Court in the bathtub and drown that sucker.
Have I told you lately that I hate those sumbitches? I do. I flat hate them.
Thanks to David for getting me riled-up.
if he’s a normal person he’ll be so mad he’ll never vote on their side again, but he’s not a normal person he’s a “conservative”
1Roberts is young enough that he could still grow into his position as Chief Justice. It’s happened before. I have doubts, certainly, since the Peter Pan party doesn’t even want to grow up. Moreover, his decision was a convoluted mess, as if he had decided to support the mandate, but also wanted to smack down the federal government on the Commerce Clause. A man with his ego may not like the contempt that will be heaped on him from the right and human nature might make him start questioning his fealty to that group. I guess we’ll find out if he’s human or not over the next few years.
2Can I say again how very much I hate George W for so thoughtlessly making this putz the Chief Justice? I had to laugh at Robert’s words about how the SCOTUS isn’t there to protect the voters from their political choices. And, he apparently wrote that without any sense of irony.
3I hate them,too,Juanita.So much that I am occasionally ashamed of myself for expending that much emotional energy on people who are SO not-worth-it.
4BarbinDC–In at least some cases Robert’s is correct that “SCOTUS isn’t there to protect the voters from their political choices.” In 2000 they “protected” the voters from making any political choice at all and elected Dubya with five votes.
5Evidently Roberts wrote the first forty pages of what became the dissent before changing his vote and also writing the majority opinion. The disjointed chunk added on to the dissent was obviously written by someone else. (Dissent also refers to the Ginsberg dissent, although in the end, she was in the majority)
Roberts should not be thrilled to find out that he is being slime covered from inside that Whited Sepulchral.
6Oh well…CJ Roberts can can always hope history will be kinder to him than his contemporaries:
“He represents the kind of political, economic, and social thinking that I believe we need on the Supreme Court … he has a national name for integrity, uprightness, and courage that, again, I believe we need on the Court”
-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, upon appointing Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
“The biggest damned-fool mistake I ever made”
7-President Dwight D. Eisenhower, about his appointment of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (some years later)
JJ, don’t hold back now. Let it out, girl!
8from my judiciously somber yet heavily padded study in north east Texas …
This group has nine Supremes for a very good reason! I give props to the framers who I like to think say the T’s coming.
I want to hold off on judging Roberts until he is about 80, to see the effect on him of 30 or so years on the big bench.
BTW many PsOTUS have deeply regretted their Supremes selections. I suspect and hope that the freedom of a lifetime appointment will allow Roberts to requote Star Trek, “Perhaps to be a Teer is to see in new ways.”
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