The left will say Roberts is there hero, UNTIL, obama wants to do something that Roberts has just limited. Wait until they wake up and realize that Roberts skunked them. Roberts agreed with every argument the conservatives brought up and put it those agreements for conservatives in his findings.
Consider this.
Ezra Klein: The Political Genius of John Roberts
By voting with the liberals to uphold the Affordable Care Act, Roberts has put himself above partisan reproach. No one can accuse Roberts of ruling as a movement conservative. He’s made himself bulletproof against insinuations that he’s animated by party allegiances.
But by voting with the conservatives on every major legal question before the court, he nevertheless furthered the major conservative projects before the court — namely, imposing limits on federal power. And by securing his own reputation for impartiality, he made his own advocacy in those areas much more effective. If, in the future, Roberts leads the court in cases that more radically constrain the federal government’s power to regulate interstate commerce, today’s decision will help insulate him from criticism. And he did it while rendering a decision that Democrats are applauding.
The Dems are applauding for now .... Obama got his Obamacare which turns out to be the booby prize. Roberts chained it around Obama’s neck and padlocked it with a Supreme Court ruling .... the largest tax hike in history. Now Obama, in a horrible ecomony (it’s getting worse, too) will be faced with trying to defend a tax hike despite many, many promises that he will not raise taxes on anyone making under $250K by “one penny, one dime”. Everyone gets hit by this. Folks will ignore terminology like “individual mandate”, but tell them they just got hit with a new TAX and watch the explosion. As one columnist put it ... “the Dems made their bed & the Supreme Court is making them lie in it”. All the Dems running for re-election will have to defend being a ‘tax hiker’. I’m guessing there are no champagne corks popping at the WH tonight. BTW - I don’t think in his ‘victory’ speech after the SOTUS ruling that Obama mentioned the word “tax” one time.