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Judicial Betrayal

RepubRob2 Wrote: Jul 04, 2012 2:49 PM

Uh, uh. Good try, but no sale here, will, and I'm betting none of the other Conservatives here are buying your load either. The reason nobody (including you, and I'll bet Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan) saw Roberts' decision coming is because it was such a judicial reach that no thinking person could have anticipated it. It was a plain, old bad decision - NOT because I didn't agree with it, which I did not, but because Roberts reached across the bench and made the government's case FOR it. Not even the liberal, non-Constitutionalist judges on the SCOTUS agreed with it in principle.

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Shoppin Wrote: Jul 04, 2012 3:32 PM

That's right, dumb dumb. The rage directed at Roberts is directed away from Obama. That means that Roberts takes the heat--and he does not have to sit for election. Meanwhile, as he is taking the heat for Obama, the election is coming up. The focus is on impeaching Roberts and away from Obama. Split the rage, split the vote, lose the election. Conservatives are so brilliant...

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Judicial Betrayal

Betrayal is hard to take, whether in our personal lives or in the political life of the nation. Yet there are people in Washington -- too often, Republicans -- who start living in the Beltway atmosphere, and start forgetting those hundreds of millions of Americans beyond the Beltway who trusted them to do right by them, to use their wisdom instead of their cleverness.

President Bush 41 epitomized these betrayals when he broke his "read my lips, no new taxes" pledge. He paid the price when he quickly went from high approval ratings as president to someone defeated for reelection by a...

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