John Roberts and the Cloward-Piven Strategy

PJ Media ^ | 2 July 2012 | Michael Walsh

[Rummyfan]

I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet on the Right just how awful the John Roberts Obamacare decision really is, or what nasty consequences will now flow from it.

Of course, it’s a betrayal on the part of the chief justice, not only of the conservative constituency that put him into his lifetime, very well paid sinecure, but of all Americans foolish enough to believe that we actually are a government of laws, not men. At one stroke, Roberts has damaged his own reputation (ruined it, really) and that of the court. If Roberts was reacting to the unconscionable and outrageous pressure being put on him by the president and his amen corner in the media — as it appears he was — then, as Chapman University law professor John Eastman has said, Roberts should resign:

If the assumption is right, that he thinks was unconstitutional but found a way to uphold it to preserve the integrity of the court, then he really ought to resign because it proves he doesn’t have the judicial fortitude to do the job that he’s been chosen to do.

[ClearCase_guy]

Roger Taney? Not a bad Chief Justice. John Roberts? A really awful Chief Justice.

Mistakes have consequences.

[mongo141]

Well it seems the Republic has a new Benedict Arnold.

[Paladin2]

"If the assumption is right, that he thinks was unconstitutional but found a way to uphold it to preserve the integrity of the court, then he really ought to resign because it proves he doesn’t have the judicial fortitude to do the job that he’s been chosen to do."

A steady drumbeat of "Resign Roberts, Resign" needs to greet him wherever he goes.

[Lauren BaRecall]

When Roberts wrote that it wasn’t his job to protect the people from the consequences of elections, he was actually referring to the election of GWB - the consequence being himself.

[madison10]

Wracked my brain for the historical person akin to Roberts—found him last night while reading: Pilate.

[Smokeyblue]

Any authority that Thief Justice Roberts had came from the document he just obliterated, the Constitution.

FUJR

[Steamburg]

As much as I don’t like the decision of John Roberts, I have to stop and ask who ever let this nation get so out of control that America should have to rely on the vote of one elitist for our freedom?

Either we take responsibility and make changes or we don’t. Either way, it’s time to stop whining about how poorly we are represented and read the Declaration of Independence again.

[Smokeyblue]

He’s also the new Sally Fields.

“They like me. They really like me.”

[NTHockey]

If Benedict Roberts feared the media, wait until Conservatives are done with him. He must not be allowed to render another decision.

Remember that he also concurred with the majority in the Stolen Valor case that it is a First Amendment right to lie.

[griswold3]

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[dps.inspect]

John Dick-Head Roberts

[jesseam]

Swiss bank account???

[AceMineral]

Justice Roberts in the “switch in time that saved nine”.

[bmwcyle]

AMEN

[sickoflibs]

RE :” If the assumption is right, that he thinks was unconstitutional but found a way to uphold it to preserve the integrity of the court, then he really ought to resign because it proves he doesn’t have the judicial fortitude to do the job that he’s been chosen to do“

HA-HA see I been joking about punishing Roberts by defeating Romney and here the author ACTUALLY suggests having Obama replace Roberts when he has a Dem Senate, Now you see how silly this has gotten??

RE :” At one stroke, Roberts has damaged his own reputation (ruined it, really) and that of the court. “

The same justice that Obama called out in the SOTU for Citizen's United and Dems been cursing up until last month? In a month or two they will be cursing him again.

So lets see, Republicans hate him, libs hate him (well not this week anyway) but I heard there was a poll that said that 44% of Americans don't even know that there was a ruling last week on Obam-ney-care.(Sounds like my neighbors.)

This is the true irony here.

That and Romney says it's not a tax and the GOP has been saying it was a tax.

[Gilbo_3]

oh, come on, cloward-piven isnt just for communists/anarchists anymore...sir john simply and skillfully set the table for obambam-ney-cares self implosion, and he will be hailed as the *savior of the Republic* in the future history books, written by the ministry of need to know...

git wit da program...

[Bernard Marx]

A steady drumbeat of "Resign Roberts, Resign" needs to greet him wherever he goes.

If he actually did resign, I wonder who Obama would appoint to replace him. Maybe Eric Holder? This is just all too depressing.

[Mach9]

Yes, indeed. And this isn’t getting the coverage it deserves (shock!). I guess the First Amendment interpretation that one can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theatre means simply that we can’t disrupt an otherwise peaceful society, not that one can’t deliberately perpetrate a falsehood. What’s disturbing and illogical is that courts seem to be the only venues where lying can be punished or even discouraged. And courts, of all settings, are chock-full of advocates for the nonexistence or harmlessness of the lie.

[Calvin Locke]

“They like me. They really like me.”

Is that why I heard he slinked away to hide out in Malta?