John Roberts Makes His Career Move

John Roberts aspires to be a man of history, to have this court known to historians as “the Roberts Court.” And if there is to be a decisive vote in future great decisions, he wants that vote to be his.

He wants to be seen among the cognitive elite, in this capital city that voted 93-7 for Obama, as a large and independent thinker. And with this decision on Obamacare, for which he will be remembered, he has taken a great leap forward to establishing that new identity.

John Roberts likely has ahead of him a quarter of a century as chief justice. If he wants to be written of as another John Marshall or Oliver Wendell Holmes, and not Roger Taney, he must pay the price the city demands. If he does not wish to be remembered as a tea party justice, he must deliver the goods. And John Roberts just did.

Already they are saying of him that John Roberts has grown.

Liberals will never again see him in the same light. Nor will his old comrades. To attain the first, John Roberts is willing to accept the second. He has made his decision. John Roberts is moving on up.

 

Patrick J. Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three Presidents, a two-time candidate for the Republican nomination, and was the Presidential nominee for the Reform Party in 2000. He has written ten books, including six straight New York Times best sellers A Republic, Not an EmpireThe Death of the WestWhere the Right Went WrongState of EmergencyDay of Reckoningand Churchill, Hitler and The Unnecessary War. His newest book is Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? 

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Patrick Buchanan is a conservative political commentator and syndicated columnist and author of several books, including Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?.

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