Forget Roe and the Framers. Let's Talk Business

Washington Post ^ | 10/16/5 | Lorraine Woellert

[AmericaUnited]

I my 'perfect world', I would make Jesse Helms look like a liberal. But, I live in the real world. Never, ever confuse the two. I get so tired when so many of my fellow conservatives basically act delusional. And I am using the word with precision, not just 'splatting' it out there to stick someone in the eye.

Take my hero, Ronald Reagan for example. He'll most likely be the best POTUS ever in my lifetime. Reagan knew the realties of politics, did live in some delusional fantasy world, knew that to get his 'your agenda' accomplished in the real world, he had to get elected, and also compromise at times. I remember very well how some of these perpetual whiners said the same things about Reagan as they are saying about Bush. "Reagan's a fraud", "Not one agency has been abolished", "He's spending like a drunken sailer", "The deficit is out of control", "He has filled his administration with RINOS and establishment insider cronies", "He's made a deal with Tip O'Neil and betrayed us conservatives", BLAH, BLAH, BLAH." Some things never change, as in the perpetual whine.

[meema]

I like Roberts...

I, too, would have preferred Thomas or Scalia as Chief. It is possible that he thought 2 "fights" was better than 3.
But that decision made it possible for those to whom he was close to once again lobby hard that 'the SDO seat' had to be a woman.
And he didn't much 'like' the women who were highly qualified.

I believe he may well stand for the constitution before stare decisis. There are a LOT of SCOTUS decisions that must be overturned.
At least Roberts is young enough to influence SCOTUS in correcting its path.

[CharlesWayneCT]

It won't help with tort reform laws. But to the degree that the problem is judges NOT DOING THEIR JOB correctly interpreting existing law, she could help by defining new precedent which follows the intent of the constitution and existing laws regarding lawsuits, especially class action lawsuits.

Cutting down class-action lawsuits where there is actually no real victim (and which exist mostly to extort money for lawyers) would do wonders for our business climate, and might even obviate the need for radical tort reform laws.