Something I'm inordinately proud of

To wit, I do believe I've just created a spiffy new euphemism for what's commonly.. uh.. euphemised?.. as "Praying to the porcelain goddess". Hey, folks might be eating when they read this. So hush.

Anyway, said new euphemism is: Rendering unto Caesar that which was lunch.

Judge Roberts, come on down!

Some of the "highlights" of Judge Puppet's career:

· As Deputy Solicitor General, Roberts argued in a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court (in a case that did not implicate Roe v. Wade) that “[w]e continue to believe that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled…. [T]he Court’s conclusion in Roe that there is a fundamental right to an abortion… finds no support in the text, structure, or history of the Constitution.”

(And just to save some of the constitutional absolutists out there time, don't even think about trying to agree with this. There are some things that just go beyond the damn constitution, and this is one of them. All you'll succeed in doing is pissing me off.)

· In Rust v. Sullivan, the Supreme Court considered whether Department of Health and Human Services regulations limiting the ability of Title X recipients to engage in abortion-related activities violated various constitutional provisions. Roberts, appearing on behalf of HHS as Deputy Solicitor General, argued that this domestic gag rule did not violate constitutional protections.

· Roberts, again as Deputy Solicitor General, filed a “friend of the court” brief for the United States supporting Operation Rescue and six other individuals who routinely blocked access to reproductive health care clinics, arguing that the protesters’ behavior did not amount to discrimination against women even though only women could exercise the right to seek an abortion.

· The Court was so accustomed to the Solicitor General and the Deputy Solicitor General arguing for the overturn of Roe that during John Roberts’s oral argument before the Supreme Court in Bray, a Justice Asked, “Mr. Roberts, in this case are you asking that Roe v. Wade be overruled?” He responded, “No, your honor, the issue doesn’t even come up.” To this the justice said, “Well, that hasn’t prevented the Solicitor General from taking that position in prior cases.”

It remains to be seen whether this "person" can transcend his religious right, big business servicing past as Judge (assuming the dizzy bastard actually gets confirmed). Call me cynical, but somehow I doubt it.

Karl who? bleats the media.