Roberts is a great Chief Justice.
It's too bad Reagan went away like he did.
We need him right now.
Let all the people complaining about Bush right now remember that it could have been President Kerry filling the vacancies of Rehnquist and O'Connor.
Anyone who hasn't been the Reagan Library should make a trip. It is a great collection, well organized, and entertainingly presented. Even school kids will enjoy it. And walking through AF1 is a piece of history unmatched even by anything in the Smithsonian. I don't know how long they will let visitors in with such limited shielding to protect the plane's seating areas. (Good docents prevent abuse, but it is an incredibly intimate brush with history.)
I left wishing I had a few hours more to linger, and will return.
Incidentally, I read a funny little bit about Roberts, I forget the publication, I was at the gym. Anyway, back when Roberts was arguing cases before the SCOTUS, he had a client with a very weak case. He presented the case and his client lost, 9-0. The client asked why he had lost 9-0, to which Roberts replied, "Because there are only 9 justices."
Reagan ping
If all the people surrounding Bush were as good at their jobs as John Roberts, the President would be re-elected to a third term.
I delight in the fact that John Roberts may be Chief Justice for the next 25 years - or longer.