[AnotherUnixGeek]

All of a sudden you find out that the people that you thought were your friends have turned against you, they despise you, they mistreat you, they leak to the press, what do you do? Do you become more conservative? Or do you say, ‘What am I doing with this crowd of lunatics?’”

Nah, you behave like a hurt schoolgirl and throw away the principles you supposedly have because your friends are being really, really mean to you.

Is this really how Roberts wants to be seen - as a petulant child who will run crying if conservatives object to his landmark betrayal? And what exactly triggered this betrayal - did Scalia and Thomas cut in front of him in the Supreme Court cafeteria lunch line?

[alstewartfan]

Well said. Anyone who “abandons” his principles b/c his “friends” say negative things about him never had principles to cast off anyway.

[Terry Mross]

This confuses me. Roberts said it’s a tax. The republicans are out yelling “This is a tax!” If it’s a tax does congress not have the authority to levy it? If it’s not a tax then the republicans are idiots.

[Paladin2]

LOL,
Roberts wants to be the second coming of John Marshall and is going to become the second coming of Megan McCain?