“Roberts didn’t tell us the truth. At least Alito told us who he was,”
He's bitching that Roberts was not totally honest during the senate confirmation hearings. What in the hell did he expect? Of course he lied on his responses. He wanted the job.
4 years ago two supreme court seats became available and Bush, ultraconservative, appointed a fairly unknown, Roberts, to the bench as chief justice. With little known about the man, dems asked a series of questions and seemed satisfied with the candidate. (Truth being they should have filibustered to the hilt. A moderate was needed and they got a radical. Pussies!)
Now, 4 years later, Reid is telling us that the candidates Bush appointed were not honest. This is sooooo infuriating. Not because of Roberts lied but because of Reid's ingnorance. Reid knew very well who Bush would appoint. He knew what was going on. Dems do this all the time. Their desire to actually legislate overrides their common sense. They take it in the ass and then say "whow, what just happened?"
This situation is a perfect example. Dems don't want to appear as if they were obstructing government so they went along. The repubs on the other hand really don't care about government so they put a radical in to move their agenda. At the end of the day, we have a nutter as chief justice and all the dems can do is complain about being lied to.
Update: Not only is Harry complaining about Roberts. He's asking liberal groups to stop nagging moderate dems to do their job: enacting Obama's agenda. The same Obama that was elected by a large percentage of the population to change our government.
