{"id":9582,"date":"2012-07-05T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/more-conservative-contortions-to-find-something-positive-in-the-roberts-opinion\/"},"modified":"2012-07-05T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T11:55:10","slug":"more-conservative-contortions-to-find-something-positive-in-the-roberts-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/more-conservative-contortions-to-find-something-positive-in-the-roberts-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"More Conservative Contortions to Find Something Positive in the Roberts Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"

You've read George Will and Charles Krauthammer, no doubt, but perhaps you haven't seen the piece by George Weigel<\/a> in which we find:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have no special insight into the mind or motivations of the \u201chuman author\u201d of the Obamacare majority opinion; Chief Justice Roberts is certainly not God, and Supreme Court decisions are not \u201crevelation.\u201d But just as the insights that come from history and experience can unveil in biblical texts truths that their authors were only dimly aware of (or that they could not imagine in their own time and context), so there may be truths embedded in the chief justice\u2019s opinion that have implications far beyond the Affordable Care Act \u2014 truths that could in fact presage the demise of Obamacare and the beginnings of a new national commitment to building the responsible society.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If the former is hopeful, what should we call the piece by Steve McCann<\/a> in which a series of recent blows to the conservative cause is taken as sealing the fate of the Left?<\/span><\/p>\n

Rather less of a stretch is the opinion<\/a> proffered by R. Emmet Tyrrell:<\/span><\/p>\n

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All things considered we conservatives did not come out so badly, which should demonstrate once again how dangerous Obamacare is. Prior to Chief Justice Roberts' juggling actThursday, the conservative majority on the Court was going to bounce Obamacare and the Liberals could continue their noble work of deauthorizing an entire branch of the federal government, the courts. They could smear the Supreme Court as but another locale where crass conservatives play politics. You know how the otherworldly Liberals disdain mere politics! Now Chief Justice Roberts has responded to the better angels of his nature, and the Liberals are applauding. As I have said, Liberalism is dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Let's hope he is right.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You've read George Will and Charles Krauthammer, no doubt, but perhaps you haven't seen the piece by George Weigel in which we find: I have no special insight into the mind or motivations of the \u201chuman author\u201d of the Obamacare majority opinion; Chief Justice Roberts is certainly not God, and Supreme Court decisions are not … Continue reading “More Conservative Contortions to Find Something Positive in the Roberts Opinion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}