Is the “Obama Crime Family” blackmailing Chief Justice John Roberts?

[DonViejo]

For conservative commentator Wayne Root, it's the only possible answer for his decisions of late

SCOTT ERIC KAUFMAN

In his column for The Blaze, conservative commentator Wayne Root proffered a unique theory for why Chief Justice John Roberts has twice voted to save the Affordable Care Act — like former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the “lifelong conservative warrior appointed by George W. Bush to become the key conservative vote in important decisions” is being blackmailed.

“Justice Roberts was born, raised and groomed for one job in this life,” Root wrote, “to join that Supreme Court, strike down Obamacare, protect the Constitution and end big government overreach. Yet he is the man responsible for saving Obamacare – twice.”

“This doesn’t seem odd to you?” he asked. “This doesn’t smell rotten?”

Root noted that Democrats would only need to blackmail one or two key Republican figures — the other possibility he floats is House Majority Leader John Boehner — in order to effectively nullify all of the GOP’s recent electoral victories. The “Obama Crime Family” certainly has the means to acquire information on conservative targets, after all.

“What makes anyone think the government and its three-letter agencies (IRS, NSA, DOJ, FBI, SEC) don’t know everything bad about everyone in key positions in Washington, D.C.?” Root asked. “What makes you think that blackmail isn’t happening every day to conservative politicians — except it’s the government doing the blackmailing?”

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http://www.salon.com/2015/06/29/is_the_obama_crime_family_blackmailing_chief_justice_john_roberts/

[Iliyah]

1. I think they are mirroring themselves

[GoneFishin]

4. Yes. Like most untrustworthy people, they project their bad behavior onto others.

[GoneFishin]

2. Blackmail in high places, plausible. Obama blackmailing SCOTUS, idiotic. What a moron conservative,

but then I repeat myself.

[HassleCat]

3. I know the guy

Don de Don Don. (Thanks Cheech and Chong)

[JHB]

5. "Born, raised, and groomed for one job in this life..."?

What a bizzare viewpoint. And it's the hinge of Root's unhinged speculation.

[Kber]

11. If true - that would be a real conspiracy

That they knew they were going to have to birth, raise and groom this cultural warrior for this express purpose only proves that they were reacting to the far reaching Obama conspiracy!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. So some idiot RWer sees "Bush Crime Family," a well-earned multi-gen epithet, and twists it to Obama

[tymorial]

7. So Robert's woke up with a horse head in his bed?

I love these arguments about the WH bullying Roberts or as in this case, blackmailing him. How easy it is to forget Souter.
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When Justice Souter was nominated, Bush and Sununu were convinced that Souter would be a solid lock for conservatives. I should also point out that liberals believed the same. Kennedy and Kerry both voted against him. The NAACP urged its entire membership to write letters to their senators. Molly Yard who was president of the National Organization for Women organized rallies in opposition and was quoted as saying that Souter would "End freedom for women in this country." (I really despise histrionics). I always found the latter amusing. Though Planned Parenthood v Casey had some controversial language, it upheld Roe. By the mid 90s, Souter was voting largely with the liberal wing of the court.

[Cha]

8. The Obama "Crime" Family June 27, 2013

In other news, Sasha Obama was spotted showing her support for marriage equality yesterday, the same day the Supreme Court struck down DOMA, by sporting a rainbow tote.


When announcing in May 2012 that he had had a change of heart on the issue, he said: ‘There have been times where Michelle and I have been sitting around the dinner table and we’re talking about their friends and their parents, and Malia and Sasha, it wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. He’s often credited Sasha and Malia for changing his perspective on marriage equality.

Do you think her decision to sport the bag on such a historic day coincidence? We don’t.

http://www.lovebscott.com/news/michelle-obama-joins-instagram-sasha-obama-wears-her-support-for-marriage-equality-photos

Don

[Fred Sanders]

9. CNN has paid contributors and the MSM has guests from The Blaze just to drop verbal turd blossoms....I rest my case.

Roberts decided to kill EPA regulations, upheld untested execution drugs, gave unlimited free speech to corporations and gutted the VPA....the hypocrisy of conservatives is as unyielding as the amnesia it is based on.

[Jamaal510]

10. So...it sounds like

Wayne Root is saying that Justice Roberts (who was appointed by a president from his own party) and Boehner are weak, then if they're supposedly giving in to the O's "blackmail".

[niyad]

12. really?

“Justice Roberts was born, raised and groomed for one job in this life,” Root wrote, “to join that Supreme Court, strike down Obamacare, protect the Constitution and end big government overreach.

this person was . . .what? conceived and raised in a test tube? to do a job to strike down a law that was not even conceived when (if) he was born? how nus does one have to be to think, let alone speak, something that incredibly stupid? (oh, wait, I forgot for a second what he is)

[Solomon]

13. lol. I notice that the CIA is not included among the

three letter government agencies doing Obama's bidding.