Posted on 07/06/2012 7:33:45 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
A conservative federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan said in an interview published Thursday that the Republican Party has gone goofy and that these right-wingers who are blasting [Chief Justice John] Roberts are making a very serious mistake.
I mean, what would you do if you were Roberts? Judge Richard Posner, of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, told NPR. 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?
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Standing by for the Romney ballwashers to arrive spouting insults and Party Over Principle rhetoric.
So, Posner thinks we should bring our own vaseline, bend over, and beg for more. I think not!
Well said. Anyone who “abandons” his principles b/c his “friends” say negative things about him never had principles to cast off anyway.
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.
There was a cause, which this judge conveniently ignored. He should square out the first step before condemning the others.
One more person supposedly on the right tells us that even if we are served crap sammich, we are going to love it too.
We're hurting Roberts' feelings?"
Don't worry about Roberts. He's off on his annual summer Mediterranean vacation with his long time boyfriend. He left smiling, arrived smiling and will return smiling.
George Wallace once said that some goofy judge deserved a barbed wire enema. Well, this goofy hack in black just administered one to all of US. Posner is either suffering from dementia or ivory tower hemmorhoids. Bob
So, criticism from the right will also cause Roberts to become a liberal according to Judge Posner?
A week ago it was the fear of criticism from the left that cause him to turn liberal.
This rule: No matter the source of the criticism, Judge Roberts turns liberal.
The moral of the story: Roberts will go lib in the big decisions.
Captain Kangaroo is a rump ranger?
LOL,
Roberts wants to be the second coming of John Marshall and is going to become the second coming of Megan McCain?
Not so simple. Congress does not have the same plenary taxing authority of a parliament. At least the language of the constitution does not allow them to tax anything and everything. Calling what the acts calls a penalty a tax, is a novel use of the term. If the Court takes what Roberts as precedent,it has great expanded the taxing power.
For example: Past pro bono work, pics of good times past with his current co-professor on Malta (wife and kids at home).
I like to think of Roberts as the Spirit of Rodney King "Can we all get along?"
Well, the good judge should join the ‘sane’ Occupoopers.
These guys are liberals and they want both parties to be liberal. Tough.
One party will be for constitutional freedom and Western culture and ethics and free market economy and the other will be Marxist. These ELITIST limo-liberal globalist prisses can KMA. They are going to be harassed and run out on a rail if they are liberals screwing conservatives and our goals in the Republican party.
So are you saying that blackmail may have played a part in his scurrilous decision?
No, just that facts are emerging and Roberts is likely to lean to the social justice side of issues.
I agree that what showed was his, i.e. Roberts, liberal thinking. However, I also believe that he was given a nudge/suggestion based on something the public is not to know. He should have been given more vetting but apparently the nomination by Bush was taken to mean a conservative was being offered.
And you trust this guy's judgement on this decision?
This pantload Posner must have taken the brown LSD. All of a sudden, Judge, we found out that the person we thought was our friend is instead a traitorous coward who shot America in the head and then scurried off to a foreign country on "vacation". How hard is this to figure out?
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