A Crowd Of Lunatics

Morning Edition:

"The overly dramatized story of how Chief Justice Roberts' view of the health care law may have shifted or evolved during the deliberations by the court is an indication, I think, of how deep into politics the court seems to have been plunged," says Dellinger, now a Duke University law professor. "If this story is true, this leak would be an instance of an attempt coming from within the court itself to undercut the authority of an opinion. And I think that's something we've never seen before."
Stanford professor Pam Karlan, also a former Supreme Court law clerk, is more blunt.
"[The leak] really was an act of extraordinary rage and destructiveness on the part of the right-hand side of the court," she says.
Federal Judge Richard Posner, a Reagan appointee and sometime conservative icon, calls the leak a "serious mistake."
"Does that help the conservative movement?" he asks. "I mean, what would you do if you were Roberts? All of a sudden you find that the people you thought were your friends have turned against you. They despise you. They mistreat you. They leak to the press. What do you do? Do you become more conservative? Or do you say, 'What am I doing with this crowd of lunatics?' "

I think any Republican with a functioning frontal lobe has to be asking the question Posner asks.  Seriously, why would somebody who can think on their own stay aligned with these freaks and loons?  For the four millionth time, the individual mandate was a Republican idea, and yet, when Obama pushes it, they act like he's worse than Stalin.  I don't get it.  A party which ignores facts is extremely dangerous.