Posted on 06/28/2012 3:38:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
How you can still say that is beyond me. She vetted Roberts and said no. But you and every other member of FR applauded the Roberts nomination. Almost to a person. The idea that Miers was an empty suit was a damn lie then and it is a damn lie now. But you got another Harvard law twerp. How’d that work out for America?
Read that Mike Savage commented Roberts was on meds for seisures. NYTimes wrote about it years ago. Had the ruling gone the conservative way, for sure the dims would’ve insisted he was “mentally incapable”.
No matter how some will try to spin it, here is the bottom line, Roberts voting against Scalia and with Kagan....there is no weaseling out of that fact.
Miers assertion about Roberts may have been correct. That doesn’t change my mind about her suitability for the Court.
Actually I’d prefer Stanford twerps, being from the West myself.
Sometimes Freepers are wrong, we get it, what do you want, a medal?
To be honest, I am really disappointed. I would have thought he would be stronger and not let himself bullied by that pos who occupies the white hut
Agreed and a good way to put it. I am amazed and saddened by the number of my fellow Freepers defending him.
What I want is that admission so you win. The folks blaming Bush for not being a seer and calling the person who recognized Roberts for what he was “mindless” are shameless. Is it too much to ask that we put the blame where it belongs for Arizona and Obamacare? The lying megalomaniac John Roberts.
It’s not irrelevant to anybody who is miffed at Bush today.
Miers never ended up on the SCOTUS, bringing her up now is indeed irrelevant. The issue is Robert’s below-the-radar liberalism which somehow escaped scrutiny at the time of his nomination.
Rush talks about Roberts being pressured then says he doesn’t believe it.
Today obama told a bunch of congress people that they were the first people trying to make this country better. I don’t know what he thought the foundiing fathers and all those who died in the revolution were doing.
No it is not. It is extremely relevant since Miers vetted Roberts and recommended against his nomination. Do we never learn who we can trust and not trust? BTW President Bush listened to the conservative elite so we got another Harvard turncoat bastard. What else is new?
Seems like there’s good evidence that Roberts DID change his vote after the opinions were already written. The question is why he changed it at the last minute.
Rush says he thinks it’s because Roberts decided he wanted to have a legacy. I can’t believe that anybody would want to have a legacy of so angering the public that they create the world’s biggest backlash vote in history. If Roberts had wanted to leave a legacy he had plenty of time to think about that; why would he put out his peers in such a rude and angering way to create a legacy of anger with the public?
No, that doesn’t make sense to me.
Roberts wasn’t one bit happy about making the change, according to what was reported about his red eyes and unhappy demeanor. It sounds like he covered his legal behind with very, very thin excuses that were not well-supported at all - like he was not even TRYING to make the case for what was supposedly his own decision.
What happened to Ginsburg’s original dissent? Scalie referred to it, but what did Ginsburg end up writing for the court? Did she just get scrapped? Did Soros tell Roberts to take what Ginsburg wrote and just tack his name to the bottom of it? Did Roberts throw something together at the last minute so he just put platitudes in there, regurgitating what Verrilli fed him at the hearing? Did Roberts actually write that opinion? When?
I believe there’s a LOT more to this story than meets the eye.
Well, he got it....The Roberts Tax.
You misunderstand. I’m just following the breadcrumbs. And it is pretty clear to me, that in the world of DC politics, Roberts was Rehnquist’s pick.
LLS
So, he didn’t say it was a tax. He said it “may reasonsbly be characterized as a tax”. obama will “characterize” it to be whatever the king wants it to be.
John Roberts is gay and he didn’t want to be outed.
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