Tag: Chief Justice Roberts

Rush Limbaugh off his game?

Look, I tune in to the maharajah at lunch time in ye olde kitchen, regaling myself with cream cheese on whole wheat or p.b. and jelly and activa yogurt. Got into habit of wine or beer but am dropping that. Flip goes the switch to WLS-AM and Rushbo.

I have loved it for the news items (sound clips), his insights delivered with unique panache and sometimes laugh-out-loud humor. He has exuded confidence. Did. Now — I date it from the Roberts decision to OK Obamacare — he’s off his game, worried. Hard to listen to.

Maybe I don’t spend enough time with him — only a fraction of his three hours. Maybe I am misreading his tone. But Cassandra has a rival these days, I fear, and it’s he.

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Informed rejoinder from Reader D:

The Economy Alone Doesn’t Equal an Automatic Win for Republicans – The Rush Limbaugh Show

Don’t think I can agree in general with your Rush/Cassandra comparison.
In this transcript he sounds pretty sure Obama will lose — but I think he is torn between bolstering the base and whistling in the dark in this campaign — he is suspicious of the Republican establishment, and Republican consultants and Republican Old Guard, etc. But Rush isn’t telling us it’s time to head to New Zealand YET, but I think he’s looked over the travel brochures.
The Roberts decision threw Rush completely. I think it threw the other conservatives on the court, too.
When I listen to Rush it’s usually for the full 3 hours. I didn’t hear him this Mon-Tues, and he had subs on for a few days last week that I don’t listen to. I like Mark Styne as a sub.
Rush has been supportive of Romney — as he said during the primary — Anyone But Obama.
The joys of interactivity.

Roberts did not disappoint

Mike Fahy of Chicago finds precedent for the Roberts opinion:

If you wish to understand Thursday’s incoherent opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, you must first read Republican history from the Summer of 2005.

Contrary to all that has been written since Thursday’s enactment of RobertsCare, John Roberts did not change. He has always been that way. Eight years ago, we were warned about the Roberts appointment, but most of us did not listen.

When Roberts was nominated, we were warned that he was a RINO jurist appointed by a RINO president — just as RINO Souter was appointed by the previous RINO president. To wit: read these two 2005 articles by Ben Shapiro and Ann Coulter. They were absolutely 100% correct about Roberts!

President Bush’s Roberts Pick Disappoints by Ben Shapiro on 7/20/5
Pull quote: “Roberts is not an originalist. There is nothing in his very short jurisprudential record to indicate that his judicial philosophy involves strict fidelity to the original meaning of the Constitution.”

Fool Me 8 Times, Shame on Me by Ann Coulter on 7/27/5
RINOs on parade: (1) Earl Warren, (2) William Brennan, (3) Harry Blackmun, (4) John Stevens, (5) Sandra O’Connor, (6) Anthony Kennedy, (7) David Souter, and (8) John Roberts.
Pull quote re the Roberts nomination: “We have 55 Republican seats in the Senate…, and Son of Read-My-Lips gives us another ideological blind date.”

And published this afternoon, looking back to 2005:
A Thought about Chief Justice Roberts by David Bernstein on 6/30/12
Pull quote: Roberts “is extremely risk-averse.”

Also published today, remembering Roberts as a country-club Republican:
Why I Walked Out on John Roberts by Michael Filozof in American Thinker on 6/30/12
Pull quote: “Roberts seemed like the master of pleasing everyone all the time by saying nothing of substance.”

Conservatives had a 2005 alternative to Roberts; she was Janice Rogers Brown. But Brown was frowned upon by country-club Republicans because she is not an Ivy Leaguer. Even before last Thursday’s disgraceful decision, Janice Rogers Brown said the Supreme Court has “abdicated its Constitutional duty to protect economic rights.” See If only Janice Rogers Brown were on the Supreme Court dated 4/18/12.

Again, Republicans have proven beyond doubt the shibboleth of their party. It is axiomatic wisdom: Republicans never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity.

Our leaders, from Sarah Palin on the right to Mitt Romney on the left, now tell us we can defeat RobertsCare at the 11/6/12 election. Here is why they are wrong: A National Geographic poll taken this week reveals that 65% of American voters believe that Obama is better equipped than Romney to protect us from alien invaders from outer space.

In the unlikely event that Romney is elected, will he nominate Janice Rogers Brown? Of course not. Romney is not an originalist. Janice Rogers Brown’s copy of the Constitution does not have a respiratory system.

The Republican Party owns this one — RobertsCare!

He’s right about that poll, which says it all.