[teletech]

So far, Roberts has the trick down. They want to divine the future, he only tells them the past. Hope has emotion, modern memory is calcified science.

Maybe Roberts is telling the Democrats what they want to hear but maybe he's not and THAT is what scares me.

[cornelis]

THAT is what scares me.

It's the mark of divinity.

[saveliberty]

I have been listening very carefully. He is precise with his choice of words.

I have to laugh when liberals are happy. They are hearing what they want to hear.

Conservatives want him to be a judge and to use a lot of words to say nothing. Which he is doing brilliantly.

Privacy is like a Victorian euphemism that means abortion on demand. He used the code word, and what, they have to assume that he means it the way that they want?

Here's another perspective. Dems can't fight him. Roberts has at least 60 votes-- he may have 70. The conventional wisdom (usually wrong) says that well, he's a conservative replacing a conservative so this doesn't upset the balance.

But they are going to lose so they have to save face about it.

So the plan may be to pretend to be harsh, pretend to hear what they want to hear and then declare victory when he's confirmed.