Yea, maybe Roberts has Stockholm Syndrome? Maybe Harriet Miers would have been more reliable, but who knows?
Miers was derided as being a pedestrian lawyer, but I’d rather have five Mierses than the cabal that rubber stamped Obamacare. As it is, she’d have been in what is Alito’s seat had she survived the storm, so it wouldn’t have helped with the Roberts problem.