Ten minutes before the Obamacare ruling was announced, Roberts was dismissed by the press as just the leader of the old right wing clan that is holding down the true progressive ideals that are needed to reform America. Ten minutes after the ruing was announced, Roberts was lauded as the having the finest Judaical mind and the fullest understand and respect for progressive legislation.
It is reminiscent of Senator McCain. The reliable suck up "statesman" to the press, who votes along with Democrats in the spirit of bi-partisanship, to compromise on progressive legislation. How quickly McCain was turned into a right-wing reactionary racist when he dared to run against the savior of 'change' Obama. m/r
Supreme Court Hypocrisies - Victor Davis Hanson - National Review Online
By Victor Davis Hanson
July 4, 2012
By hailing Roberts, the Left reveals its double standards.
Until last week, Chief Justice John Roberts was vilified as the leader of a conservative judicial cabal poised to destroy the Obama presidency by overturning the federal takeover of health care. But with his unexpected affirmation, Roberts suddenly was lauded as the new Earl Warren — an “evolving” conservative who at last saw the logic of liberal big government.
Among our elites — journalists, pundits, and academics — liberal Supreme Court justices are always deemed “open-minded,” even as they are expected to vote in absolute lockstep liberal fashion. In contrast, a conservative justice is written off as reactionary or blatantly partisan when he likewise predictably follows his own orthodoxy — pressures that may well have affected Roberts if reports of an eleventh-hour switch in his vote are true.
No surprise, then, that a surreal discussion followed the recent ruling of the high court. Our legal establishment expected that the four liberal judges would not deviate one iota in their affirmation of the health-care law, even as it hoped that a conservative or two would show judicial character by joining the liberals.
Democrats like activist federal courts to overturn — in matters of gay marriage, abortion, affirmative action, and illegal immigration — ballot propositions and majority votes of legislatures fostered by supposedly illiberal and unsophisticated voters. But on health care, liberals — led by the president — made the argument that a wrongly activist Supreme Court should not dare to tamper with what an elected Congress had wrought.
President Obama was incoherent in his commentary on the Supreme Court.
-more of Obama's incoherency at the link-
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