Posted on 07/03/2012 2:22:22 PM PDT by nerdgirl
The day after the ruling came down, this newspaper carried an article that explained Justice Roberts's decision this way: "By confounding charges that the court is too partisan, the chief justice might have earned sufficient political capital to move to the right during the next term, when the court will likely confront a host of hot-button issues, including affirmative action, gay marriage and the continued vitality of the Voting Rights Act."
If earning "sufficient political capital" is simply a consequence of his ruling, Justice Roberts cannot be blamed. If it was the aim, however, and it led to his voting as chief justice in a way he would not have voted as an associate justice, he has raised rather than resolved questions about the integrity of the Roberts court.
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Someone could make a fortune out of selling “Roberts” toilet paper, dartboards, and urinal cakes. Maybe Roberts needs to call Jane Fonda for some advice on how to handle being a traitor.
How will Roberts rule if Obama decides he wants to be President for life...or at least a third term?
Roberts is simple to figure out, and weak-minded. He caved to media pressure, headed up by the Obama regime. He will do more of it in the future, because he is a media darling and pop star now. Think of him as the McCain of the Supreme Court. He is a painted turd, and no matter how pretty he looks to some people, he is still a turd stinking up the room.
Awesome graphic!
Barack Obama is so smart.
Michelle Obama is so smart.
Valarie Jarrett is so smart.
Hillary Clinton is so smart.
And now John Roberts is so smart too.
And we are all just too stoo-pid to understand how smart they are.
We are all just too stoo-pid to see how stoo-pid we are.
Please, won’t someone help us?
/sarcasm
Easy, “its not a third term, even though it is.”
From now on, let’s refer to this case as ‘Roberts vs. The Constitution.’
He wants a legacy? Let’s give him one.
Yep. He’s just a puking sell out. Its not complicated.
-The American Crisis, December 23, 1776, Thomas Paine
-PJ
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Even FR's polyannas have to agree we were had.
“...when the court will likely confront a host of hot-button issues, including affirmative action, gay marriage and the continued vitality of the Voting Rights Act.”
Or, maybe not if Romneybama isn’t a afraid to rule by executive order.
Two can play at that game.
Roberts won’t read any of this. He’s laid the egg and now off from the henhouse.
Nice one.
Neither fish nor fowl, Roberts will be forever distrusted by both sides, but I suppose that’s part of his “gen(i)us.”
I don’t know why he needs political capital when he’s appointed for life.
the stupid GOP should start running this AD. “If you are uninsured and ahve a job, you now must get insurance - (insert Pelosi about free riders and Obambi making a comment) then tell them this will cost you about $200.00 per month because they think you need the smae coverage as your parents. Tell the president you think this is great and you can’t wait to pay.”
Why is every “CONSERVATIVE”?? news pundits making excuses for this Chief Justice? This justice showed his complete abhorant to the constitution, by giving these liberals an out. Who cares whether OBAMA CARE is a penalty or a tax? IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Every one with more brains than a goat, realises this. But because this justice gave these Washington liberals the excuse why they passed this abhorant law, they can all go back to smoking their hemp, and be very satisfied that they have at least another Warren Court they can be satisfied with. While we the people keep trying to appoint CONSTRUCTIONIST justices, these justices keep stabbing us in the back.
Well, the Constitution explicitly declares that a President cannot serve more than two four year terms.
So, obviously the Roberts fix would be to rule that despite the fact that many of us have always thought of a year as 365 days, it really is 1,000 days for the balance of the Obama term.
So how much did Roberts get in payback for this disaster?
He did worse than giving “liberals an out”. He shot them up with steroids by screwing up the ruling so bad the Commerce Clause and now Taxation give libs in Congress unlimited power to control our lives.
My suggestion? Buy more ammo.
Well, this gives Roberts precedence to rule in favor of the government when they tell everyone that unless they buy a GM car they’ll face a government penalty.
I believe he is being BLACKMAILED about his TWO ADOPTED kids from IRELAND that came thru LATIN AMERICA!! WHY LATIN AMERICA????ILLEGAL ADOPTION????
I think that’s complicated; if you turn on your friend the MINUTE they do something you don’t like, your friendship isn’t worth much. The very reason this came as such a surprise to many was that Roberts does NOT have a record of doing something like this. Despite some individual decisions to the contrary, his court has in fact been one of the more conservative ones. So actually the fact that conservatives didn’t immediately come out in force to crucify one of “their own” is not necessarily a bad thing, in fact it might differentiate us from the other side.
Remember how Roberts screwed up the oath of office and had to go redo it a day or so later? He'll simply rule that because of that, Obama's first term was less than four years and thus he is eligible to run again. Simple.
As well they should. Roberts is a coward and a traitor.
Oh yeh. He’s off to Malta for the summer. He doesn’t care what he has done to the country.
Roberts was either blackmailed or paid off (bribed). Either of which was greatly facilitated by having Sotomayer on the court who could tip off Obamination as to how the voting went and what needed to be done to get the ends both of them wanted. Pure corruption. Nothing else explains it.
Sad & true. Federal Employees think almost as little as they care when it comes to trampling upon our dwindling rights. Now it can’t honestly be said that we have much at all in the way of rights.
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