Posted on 06/26/2012 11:38:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: The Politico has a story today warning John Roberts: "You can be lionized and be the biggest hero in this town, or we can make your life miserable. It's up to you." Now, those are my words, but that's the point of the Politico story: You can be the biggest, most prominent, most loved and revered chief justice in the history of chief justices, or you can be dirt. It's up to you, judge. He's supposed to swing Obamacare. Exactly right. I've got that story in the stack here. I'm getting way ahead of myself here. I had this stuff all laid out.
"John Roberts's Big Moment -- Chief Justice John Roberts pledged during his Supreme Court hearings to be a mere umpire of the law. But as a legacy-defining decision nears, Roberts is emerging as the court’s most intriguing player. Justices are expected to rule Thursday -- during their final public sitting of the term -- on the fate of President Barack Obama’s signature health law. While much of the early attention focused on swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy, many court watchers predict Roberts will be the architect of the ruling.
"To a great extent, the decision will shape the way history views Roberts’s stewardship of the high court. The chief justice may not hold the key vote to what the court does on the pivotal case, but he could be in a position to dictate how the court does it. 'The health care case will undoubtedly define his chief justiceship,' said Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at George Washington University ... 'The scope of the law, the amount of people affected, the fact that it’s the centerpiece of the president’s domestic agenda, all make it as politically charged as imaginable.' ...
"Even if the 57-year-old chief justice does write the opinion, there’s considerable uncertainty about what side he would take. At stake is not only Roberts’s own legacy but also the court’s reputation as an impartial arbiter of the law." So you see, Roberts was supposed to get up and read this today. And if he votes to strip the mandate or rules the whole thing unconstitutional or whatever, he's no longer "an impartial arbiter of the law," and his legacy ... is mud. "Would he uphold the individual mandate and the law on a 6-3 vote, joining with Kennedy and the liberals for a ruling that crosses ideological and political boundaries?"
Folks, I tell you, I am so damn sick of this. You know, there hasn't been a single story -- I checked this. Not a single story, not one reference to the possibility that one of the four liberals might vote in some other way. But there are reams and reams of paper and published data about the conservative justices and which one of them will "grow" and be "mature" and do the "right" thing. And it always brings me back to this notion that we hear constantly, there must be compromise. And we must cross the aisle and work with one another.
There's not one thought even given to the fact that a liberal judge might side with America. There's not one story, not one reference, to one of the liberal judges going against his or her ideology. Now, during the oral arguments, there was some shock and dismay over some of the questions that were asked by Sotomayor, but I'm talking about stories like this. You don't see a story like this that's written for Roberts about Ginsburg or Breyer, or Kagan. You don't see any ever, any stories like this about the liberal judges. Only the so-called conservative judges.
And they're always framed in this silly notion that a judge is only decent and good and worthy of acclaim if he abandons whatever it is assumed his right-wing ideology to be. All of this is predictable. It's just the Politico, not the Washington Post Style Section but still. It's predictable. But the Politico, they're letting Roberts know: "It's up to you, pal. You want to like living in this town from Friday on, or are you going to regret the day you came out of the womb? It's up to you."
That's what they may as well be saying.
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I do not believe the gay rumors, I have no knowledge to form an opinion nor do I care to.
However, why would John Roberts care if people knew he was gay? He could not be impeached for it.
I think I understand what Rush was referring to, if correctly quoted, and it has nothing to do with homosexuality.
If I recall correctly, John sings “You’ll pay money just to see yourself with Dr. Robert,” and that he says “Bob Robert” instead of “Dr. Robert” after “he does everything he can.”
(And, on a grammatical note, it’s spelled “you’re” instead of “your” in the second, third, fifth, seventh and eighth verses.)
I trust that Justice Roberts won’t try to become Dr. Roberts and will decide the case solely on Congress’s enumerated powers, not on some notion of having to “save health care.”
What is it then?
Not moot. They may lose Obamacare but their long-term game is to intimidate the Justice into Voting Left on the next case. And the one after that.
There is going to big a big party in DC next Wednesday. I understand they are going to Barbecue The Constitution.
“I think I understand what Rush was referring to, if correctly quoted, and it has nothing to do with homosexuality.”
Rush’s opinion is always interesting. Good to post somewhere on FR. But this item is NOT breaking news.
Maybe you forgotten the 2005 nomination announcement:
As if anyone who matters cares what “politico” thinks.
Some people hear “gay rumor” and OBSESS. It’s childish and stupid.
why are the leftists attacking roberts with such specificity?
is he this thin skinned? do the leftists believe that? seriously?
Rush knows.
He is much too confidently telling us how wrong the media can be, unless he knows something we don’t know. Not one story about how a lib might vote with the conservatives on the court?
Rush knows what the individual mandate decision is, and what he’s telling us here is that it’s going to be a 6-3 decision, or better, to strike down the mandate. One or more of the libs went against Obama.
we have trolls trying to spread character assasination.
Do these morons at Politico not know the decision has been finalized probably since April and the rest has been about forming the sides and writing the opinions and dissents. It’s like the scene from Last Hurrah when the returns start coming in and Pat O’Brien and Jim Gleason start heading back to the streets to find a way stop the voting trends. Spencer Tracy has to remind them that the votes are in and only have to be counted.
Straight out of the Alinsky playbook.
Do these morons at Politico not know the decision has been finalized probably since April and the rest has been about forming the sides and writing the opinions and dissents. It’s like the scene from Last Hurrah when the returns start coming in and Pat O’Brien and Jim Gleason start heading back to the streets to find a way stop the voting trends. Spencer Tracy has to remind them that the votes are in and only have to be counted.
Do these morons at Politico not know the decision has been finalized probably since April and the rest has been about forming the sides and writing the opinions and dissents. It’s like the scene from Last Hurrah when the returns start coming in and Pat O’Brien and Jim Gleason start heading back to the streets to find a way stop the voting trends. Spencer Tracy has to remind them that the votes are in and only have to be counted.
Couldn’t Roberts find some “penumbra” finding that Obama care is unconstitutional?
Only liberals are allowed to be daring. They can take prayer out of schools, make the crime of abortion legal, protect pornography under the first amendment etc. but conservatives are supposed to be timid little lambs.
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