Business as Bush-ual

Let's put it this way, just because John G. Roberts comes off as Niece Marilyn that doesn't mean he's not a Munster like the rest of them.

The wingnuts are happy, folks--that's sign enough we must oppose him. On NPR this morning a spokesnut for Operation Rescue called him a great choice. That same story mentioned that Roberts' wife, Jane Sullivan Roberts, is a lawyer involved with the anti-abortion group Feminists for Life. (I guess the test-polling for the group name Test Tubes for Jesus didn't go over too big.)

When Roberts was nominated for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the Washington Times--yes, the just a tad conservative Washington Times--hailed him and Miguel Estrada--yes, the Miguel Estrada about whom colleague and former Deputy Solicitor General Paul Bender stated is "so ideologically driven that he couldn't be trusted to state the law in a fair, neutral way"--in June 2001 as “offer[ing] business the best opportunity in years to free itself from government regulations.”

Because lord knows things like labor laws and environmental regulations are so much a thing of the 20th century.