Four of them probably do agree with his argument, but that's not the point - he disrespected them as his co-equals, by having the arrogance to stand there in public and try to dress them down like they were naughty little children who had released the emergency brake on Dad's new car and let it roll down the hill and smash through the wall of the living-room. You simply don't do that, period. And the ones who were the most surprised - taken aback, what-have-you - were probably the most liberal amongst them because they, like he, in general, would view themselves as being the pre-eminent power in DC because, unlike Congress, you can get an unassailable law put into place if only you can get 5 unelected fools to go along with you.
No, just as is so often the case we find that the worst queer-bashers are themselves in the closet, or the psychiatrist is the one most in need of therapy, in this case it will be the liberals who will be the most shocked and hurt, and thus the ones most likely to react emotionally, to Zero-bama's pathetic attempt to bully them verbally. For the conservatives like Scalia and Thomas, this is par for the course - they've heard stuff that's orders of magnitude worse than that, and to them it just rolls off the back like water on a duck.
