Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:19:52 PM
The Next Enemy
The Left needs a good villain. With Bush and Cheney out of power, and
with the Rush Limbaugh strategy exhausted, who will be next?
So is there anybody left for the Democrats to boo and
hiss? Yes, there is one figure in Washington whom liberals really do
hate and fear, because he could help thwart their policy goals,
especially on social issues.
That person is Chief Justice John Roberts.
In
many ways, Roberts is the perfect enemy for the Democrats. He’s a
conservative white male who owes his appointment to the hated President
Bush. One of his core principles
is that the judiciary should make decisions on a purely legal basis
instead of a policy basis. President Obama thinks that judges should be
champions of the powerless, regardless of the law. As a senator he voted against confirming Roberts, saying that he had “used
his formidable skills on behalf of the strong in opposition to the
weak.” Therefore, the president would probably be happy to see
Roberts’s face on issue ads and his name in fundraising letters. Even better, Roberts could not defend himself, since justices are severely constrained in their public statements.