If he sells out on gay marriage and doesn't uphold DOMA and Prop. 8 (which sadly, my "gut" feeling tell me he will), then Roberts has gone squishy on us and I doubt he's being blackmailed. More likely we just ended up with another Sandra Day O'Connor (not as bad as "another Souter", but certainly terrible in the short run given that Obama is president and we only have 3 solid conservatives on SCOTUS right now to stop this stuff)
I doubt we'll ever get my dream of a fully elected SCOTUS, but I'm sure the vast majority of Americans would agree on ending lifetime appointments for SCOTUS judges and Congress should move to make such reforms in the judiciary. I don't want Clinton and Obama's appointees serving for the next several decades, either.
I also wish the judges represented geographic/population areas instead of the nation as a whole. There's a good case to be made that that was the founders intent and we've lost that since they did away with the justices "riding the circuit" in the early 1800s. Now most of the SCOTUS judges are from New York and California. We could remove three of the commie RAT judges immediately if we required them to be from different areas of the country:
