Posted on 09/18/2012 5:33:02 AM PDT by RobinMasters
So was I, Antonin.
Scalia is intelligent and principled. Toobin is neither of these things. He is a liberal stooge who just repeats Democrat Party talking points.
I very much doubt Roberts would make a decision about important constitutional issues based solely on his opinion of Justice Scalia’s personality. I don't believe Toobin on this point. I think Toobin is simply lying.
Scalia is not “bombastic”. I doubt an airhead like Toobin even cares whether what he writes is honest or not. He just attacks conservatives. The article quotes attack after attack on conservatives but not one negative thing about the liberals on the court.
The liberals on the Supreme Court have consistently betrayed the Constitution and put the rights of all Americans at risk. They have advocated using laws from other countries to take precedence over the provisions of our Constitution.
But to a knee jerk liberal like Toobin undermining the Constitution is good.
I despise roberts but toobin serves obama.
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The first statement, that Roberts changed his vote late in the process has been well documented and can be assumed to be true.
The second statement makes no sense whatsoever and can only be a lie. No intelligent or logical person could possibly believe that the health care law could be intelligently divided up into what was constitutional and what was not. The law was extremely vague and intertwined and someone as intelligent as Roberts had to know that there was no rational way to declare part of the law constitutional and part unconstitutional. Obama’s own lawyers as much as admitted this.
It is irrational that Roberts could possibly be persuaded by the sophistry of the now it's a tax, now it's not a tax wording in his decision. Scalia easily showed the many flaws and irrationality of this approach.
Toobin is a liar. That is the only logical explanation for the content of this book.
A lot of us were furious with Roberts. Still are.
If the source is toobin, overwhelming odds are that he has it wrong.
Scalia was/is known to be very upset (yes even furious) but that is like pointing out the sky is blue.
That’s the grin. Blech.
Absolutely, if anything the Right has moved more to the center with a faction (Tea Party folks and others) heading to the right area occupied by Reagan creating a split in the party. The Dims have simply all moved left, if not, they certainly have found a way to intimidate and silence the more right leaning Dims.
” Anyone with half a brain should be furious about Robert’s vote.
He chose to be popular with the leftists rather than take his oath to defend the constitution seriously.
In doing so he may have damaged his reputation beyond any kind of repair. “
In my opinion, he has already done more damage on one vote than any leftist could do.
Agreed. I might have expected it from Kennedy, but Roberts being the one who defected shocked me. I’d love to bump in to him some day and remind him what a failure he has been.
So would I.
Jorge Bush did a great deal of lasting damage to America. No, I do not miss him.
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Long ago I said George Bush would become a curse on the lips of every conservative American.
I’ve felt that way since before he was elected President. I have Texas relatives who learned what he’s made of while he was Governor.
I have heard that from other people about him. His father was a loser too. One of Reagan’s few mistakes.
If only Reagan had chosen his close friend Paul Laxalt for his VP... a great opportunity squandered.
Laxalt shared Reagan’s conservatism, unlike the New England patrician GHW Bush. Not to mention Bush’s fool of a son.
I don’t know much about him,
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