Digby: Mister Roberts

Big Tent Democrat at Talk Left makes a nice point today in his post called The Invidiousness of Expert Broderism, about the detached nature of the discussion surrounding the Supreme Court term by liberals and moderates who backed the Lieberdem impulse to put John Roberts and Samuel Alito on the high court because they were ... well, great guys. (They'd had beers with them!)

My personal feeling is that this court is going to practice a form of radical right wing judicial activism that will transform our country over the next generation. (Remember, everything the right accuses the left of doing is what they actually are doing.) Democrats will spend a major amount of time when they are in power trying to find legislative and executive remedies for the dramatic judicial tilt toward big business, fundamentalist religion and racist, discriminatory outcomes --- which will have been made in service to the Republican party and its donors. (After Bush vs. Gore I think we can finally dispense with any notion that the justices are non-partisan.)But we knew that didn't we, when the gang of 14 decided they needed to keep their powder dry for a rainy day?