Jeff Toobin: "Roberts was red-eyed and unhappy as he read.”

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[Ronaldus Magnus]

Also - "Scalia walked into courtroom totally downcast."

[Tau Food]

Yes, indeed, you’ve got it right. We have got to quit voting for liberals. If we continue to vote for liberals, whether Democrats or RINO’s, we deserve what we got today.

[Verginius Rufus]

One other point to bear in mind is that Ginsburg was born in 1933. She will be 80 next year and may not last until 2017—so whoever is the winner of the 2012 election may pick her replacement. Romney might give us another squishy conservative like Roberts, but Obama would pick another militant leftist.

[Chickensoup]

Who got to him? This does not make sense.

[Sea Parrot]

Ditto on that, Roberts can now burn in Hades for eternity.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

"Coerced," "Blackmailed," or "Pressured," MY A$$!

Ah, a little reminder: This so called "Conservative" in "Liberal" Clothing voted with the "LEFT" on Arizona, Dear Leader's "Death Care," AND, striking down the "Stolen Valor Act," ....all within one week.

In my book that makes Roberts a "Souter-lite, traitor"

[Mr Rogers]

“Well, I’m damning him straight to hell.”

Agreed. When I pray tonight, I’m going to ask God to judge Obama & Roberts as their actions deserve...

[EBH]

“Coerced,” “Blackmailed,” or “Pressured,”

He is the Chief Justice and if any of this be true...he is a Coward and his children will damn for the life he has created for them with the stroke of his pen. He and he alone will be held to account for his cowardice.

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace” ~~Thomas Paine

[xzins]

First of all after Arizona and then this, what is the difference between Ginsberg and Roberts? Well Ginsberg is an honest anti-constitutional liberal. Roberts, OTOH, is a treasonous bastard who deliberately violated his oath of office.

Just more proof that Romney judicial nominations are zero reason to elect the father of obamacare.

Conservatism is having a terrible run lately:

Clinton - 2 terms
Obama - first term
Prescription drug bill
Arizona ruling
Obamacare ruling
Gay marriage
Log Cabin Republicans
Pro-Gay "Evangelicals"
Roberts turns/was left

We have lost the war for hearts and minds. It's not over til the fat lady sings, but I hear her clearing her throat.

[ADemocratNoMore]

> They can do that by electing a Tea Party Senate to go with the Tea Party House as well as a Republican president.

Agreed. I would also argue that we have to start at ground level and elect Conservatives at both the level of local government and as members of the Republican party infrastructure. As appealing as a true Consertive party sounds, I see the transformation of the GOP-E to the GOP-Conservatives as the path to a Conservative Legislature.

Given that Mittens is the lesser of the two evils and the darling of the gop-E, do you think that the Tea Party wing, if we get enough numbers, will serve to keep him on the straight & narrow path of Conservatism?

[Principle Over Politics]

Hello Harriet.

[montag813]

Chris Matthews, mere moments after the decision came down, seem unsurprised and oddly said:
"I think John Roberts sat down - with his wife - and said 'let's make the moral decision here'".
Huh? Does anyone know the deal with his wife? Liberal, like Ted Olson's wife? Or something else?

[762X51]

“Those decisions are entrusted to our Nation’s elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them. It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.”

BULLSHIT! If those elected leaders produce unconstitutional law the ONLY job of the Supreme Court is to strike it down and protect the Constitution.

[Verginius Rufus]

The two sentences you are reacting to are from Roberts' opinion, not something I said.

Generally for decades we have had courts overstepping their bounds and dictating to the American people instead of allowing the natural processes of legislation to go forward. Now we have a case where Congress was out of control (they had to bribe Representatives and Senators to get the votes needed, and a lot of them paid for it by losing their seats in Nov. 2010), and all of a sudden the Court decides on an idealized vision of how our political system works.

Cicero complained of Cato the Younger that he thought he was living in Plato's Republic instead of among the dregs of Romulus.

[LibLieSlayer]

I agree with you about anne but Rush is not a lawyer and Levin is a Statesman regardless of his degree. I do share your general sentiment however.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

I used to be one of them... but screw them if they can still support that rat bastard and his leftist family. They are no better than the clintons in any way at all.

LLS

[762X51]

Thanks! I’m well aware of who said it. I was actually responding to the Roberts quote not you.

[762X51]

Thanks! I’m well aware of who said it. I was actually responding to the Roberts quote not you. Sorry that wasn’t directed at you. Meant to delete your name in the “to:” section.

[who knows what evil?]

Waldo Bush appointed this stealth liberal Roberts.

Ol' Georgie was sitting next to Nolan Ryan at the Rangers game last night; probably full aware that everyone else in that stadium was going to take it in the neck the following day...

[Houghton M.]

This permits Romney to campaign full-throttle against Obamacare as a monster tax as well as monster statism. It frees him of the albatross of RomneyCare.

I’m guessing he’s smart enough to see that.

Could he campaign one way and then govern the other (not try to repeal Obamacare once he’s elected)? Perhaps. Is he that stupid? Perhaps. But somehow running Bain Capital and that level of stupidity don’t seem reconcilable.

And if Boehner gets some balls from this—if they seize the momentum and vote to repeal now, before the election (the Senate will block it, of course), it will establish a precedent that Boehner might have to follow in the new Congress.

Maybe.

Had SCOTUS simply overturned it all on its own, the eeeeeeeeevvvvvvvvvviiiiiiiiiiiilllllllllll Scotus would be the focus today and for the rest of the campaign. We’d get a mixed Congress and 2/3 of Obamacare would survive, under different labels. Obama said he expected it to take ten years to get to Single Payer. SCOTUS overturning Obamacare would have actually kept him on track to that goal. Now we have a chance to derail him. A chance.

[Houghton M.]

Curl has it right. Read this

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/28/curl-roberts-to-the-rescue-for-romney/