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"Roberts was driven more by politics than precedent"

I've read more than one person theorizing that Roberts often votes the way he does, not because he's a moderate, but because he's trying to keep the Republican party from shooting itself in the foot any further -- if he did NOT keep them from overturning Roe v. Wade (for example), they'd get shellacked even worse in the next election.

I don't KNOW what his motives/beliefs are, but that's certainly a plausible theory.

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I'm amazed he's even wearing a mask.

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He can't even learn to breathe with his mouth closed.

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Fortunately for...schaedenfreude, I guess...Trump has no intelligence at all, and will give us a William H. Macy in "Fargo" denouement.

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He actually may have, and that's why he went to Walter Reed in the middle of the week, not too long ago.

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Thanks!

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Robot Nixon on Futurama.

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That'd be fine with me. I was simply referencing the ignominious fate of a certain Italian tinpot tyrant and his mistress. With votes.

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"Can the media please remind the president that the very tax returns he is fighting so hard to keep hidden are the same tax returns he promised he would release back in 2016 when his "audit" was over"

As my hairdresser said when I asked if she could make me a redhead:"I *can*... but I *won't*."

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Must respectfully disagree.There's no way that Rapey McBeerface wouldn't have his pickle out in a situation like that.

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Someone on another site actually referred to Gorsuch as a "liberal"!!! In what parallel universe is that possible?

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I love your dad. He sounds like mine before mine lost it all.

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Yeah, if it's not safe for them to be in prison it's surely not safe for our kiddies to be in school......

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Vance's deal is a state beef. Trump can't pardon anybody, ANY BODY, from a state prosecution/conviction. Welcome to SIng Sing, fat man.

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"Any intelligence" would be an open question. If he has, I hope he enjoys life in Putin's Russia.

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Thank you.I love my Dad, too, and try to call him every day.He's an elderly cigar smoking Guido who has lived in NJ his entire life, and from whom I inherited many characteristics (including a sense of humor) in a direct vertical line.Me [on the phone]: You're off the hook for the ears, but I'm NEVER forgiving you for the feet.Dad [unimpressed]: Meh, just be glad you didn't get the eyesight.

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