Power and Disgrace Simultaneously

It was Lord Acton (John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton) who originated the famous and dependably truthful statement "absolute power corrupts absolutely".  Whether the Chief Justice of the United States pondered that thought as he proceeded down the darkened and dastardly path recently traveled is unknown, but I'd bet it at least crossed his mind.  It should have. He might have done better had he considered another of the great historian's other momentous thoughts: "Great men are almost always bad men."  Lord Acton lived from 1834 to 1910.  He was one of the world's most erudite and learned historians.  He was also a devout Roman Catholic. He was fortunate in that he missed Hitler and Idi Amin and the Rawanda disasters. His statements were in play in those awful situations.  And it was in play during the Supreme Court's deliberations of obamamess.
      Chief Justice Roberts got carried away with his power, shamefully so.  He is the poster child for someone with a runaway ego.  
       The thing that has baffled me in the aftermath of the Court's sniveling anti-intellectual decision, however, is how Roberts thought he would accomplish anything positive by doing what he did.  Perhaps if he had spent his time actually reading the terrible statute before he went ahead and gave it a second life, he wouldn't be the fool he is now perceived as.  Oh, the left is mouthing nice sickly-sweet things in public and laughing a sinister sneering laugh when they think they're alone with each other.  "We got another one boot licking his way into the cocktail parties," you can hear them whisper, if you listen closely from a concealed corner in Justice Ginsburger's chambers.  How someone could be a devout conservative for his entire adult life and then sell his soul the first time being a conservative meant something momentous is completely beyond most Americans.  What Roberts did would be comparable to Churchill, after saying only unconditional surrender will end the second world war, went out and started negotiating with the first nazi to fly the coup in Berlin, or Kennedy, after vowing to get the US to the moon, then cut NASA's budget so severely that the only thing left for it to do was make Muslim people feel better about their contributions to space exploration.  I'm sorry, did somebody take that line already?
       On Friday obama was telling people that the economy had made important steps toward a turnaround.  The hand-picked audience hesitated, trying to decide if that was supposed to be a joke or something that owed its existence to a smudge on the tele-prompter, then dutifully, if somewhat half-heartedly, began to clap.  obama said some 84,000 jobs had been created in the last reporting period.  To be even slightly meaningful, that figure needed to be about five times higher, but no one at obama's speech was aware of that.  What that says about those folks is about the same thing that Roberts' opinion says about him.  Ah the ease of playing the fool.
       Roberts has spent his entire judicial career espousing a conservative agenda and a view of the constitution that compels a direct reading of the Constitution and an implementation of its obvious principals.  If a statute contravenes the plain meaning of constituional principals, it must be voided.  At least that is what Roberts has done throughout his career and what he said he would do if approved by the Congress.  It was not what he actually did to obamamess.  With that repugnant uberleft enactment Roberts decided that it was unconstitutional, but could become constitutional if, instead of a mandate to the American people to spend their money per obama's dictates, it was instead viewed as a tax.  But obama swore, up one side and down the other, that obamamess was not a tax.
       Such back alley meandering had never been attempted by a chief justice.  And this wasn't a situation where he had four justices following him on this zig=zag to feeble thinking.   The four uberleftists who joined him in upholding obamamess could've cared less how Roberts assuaged his conscience.  They started with the premise that the law was perfectly fine because it was a leftist enactment.  Ginsburg lied about American History in her dogmatic diatribe.  No indeed, the only person who was torturing stare decisis into a blood-stained oblivion was the Chief.  He was a-flipping and a-flopping to the combined disgust of most Americans, and when he was done he had boot-licked his way to the top of the Formerly Conservative Fools Bootlicking the Left round up.  You Go, Flip!  Like a child with his hand in a cookie jar, Roberts realized there was nobody who could make him do something noble and just.  No there wasn't!  It was just Flip, and Flip had the authority to do whatever he wanted and damn if he didn't.  Lord Acton saw this coming; the power corrupted and the yearning to be great made Flip a bad man.  
       Can he redeem himself?  Only if he resigns right now.