Where were you....
Jun. 28th, 2012 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogwhen the word came out? Wrong, at first:
I was in my car, heading to Rochester, and once the wrong-headline kerfuffle passed, I realized that I had part of the prediction right: Justice Roberts did, indeed, fall on his sword to get to write the opinion validating almost the entire statute. The surprising part is that swing-vote extraordinaire Justice Kennedy did not side with the Gang of Four liberals. So Roberts did it for damage control, or for the court's reputation, or because he was being blackmailed by Rahm Emmanuel (yes, there are links to that effect), or, maybe?, because it was just the damned right thing to do.
I've downloaded the opinion but have yet to read it. Something to do tomorrow in between various crises. Which will include the aforementioned hell-raining unless someone responds early and often to a final olive branch left at their vacant premises late today.
Plenty of udda thingza happened today, most of them after I left for the day. Many more fun things will begin happening tomorrow, when our beloved Kimmy makes it to town and we pick up our race packets for Saturday morning. But today's decision is the one that will live on throughout history as one moving this country out of the 18th century and into (or at least close to) where it should be in the 21st when it comes for caring for its citizens.
An Obama spokeperson could only offer one word in response to the Court's decision:
I was in my car, heading to Rochester, and once the wrong-headline kerfuffle passed, I realized that I had part of the prediction right: Justice Roberts did, indeed, fall on his sword to get to write the opinion validating almost the entire statute. The surprising part is that swing-vote extraordinaire Justice Kennedy did not side with the Gang of Four liberals. So Roberts did it for damage control, or for the court's reputation, or because he was being blackmailed by Rahm Emmanuel (yes, there are links to that effect), or, maybe?, because it was just the damned right thing to do.
I've downloaded the opinion but have yet to read it. Something to do tomorrow in between various crises. Which will include the aforementioned hell-raining unless someone responds early and often to a final olive branch left at their vacant premises late today.
Plenty of udda thingza happened today, most of them after I left for the day. Many more fun things will begin happening tomorrow, when our beloved Kimmy makes it to town and we pick up our race packets for Saturday morning. But today's decision is the one that will live on throughout history as one moving this country out of the 18th century and into (or at least close to) where it should be in the 21st when it comes for caring for its citizens.
An Obama spokeperson could only offer one word in response to the Court's decision: