Blind Justice

Well, kids, we now have Man-Without-History-Or-Opinions John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. I've tried to be open-minded about this appointment* and give him the benefit of the doubt...on paper, he seems to be well-educated and well-qualified...but there's something about the complete obfuscation of his background, his essence, and the way he parried every question directed his way that is unnerving. Like we've all been sold a bill of goods as to how he has no agenda and will simply interpret the Constitution. I fear that he will show up on the bench next Monday and pull off his mask to reveal that he is really our esteemed junior Senator Rick Santorum, with whom he shares that smug, far-right-wacko-white-guy-in-pretty-Trojan**-horse-exterior look:

Part of this, of course, is my natural skepticism of any action of the Bush administration, which is totally indebted to its similarly right-wing, "religious," big-money base and isn't beyond hiding the truth behind its actions. It's my theory* that they never would have gotten Roberts a second sniff as a Chief Justice candidate were he nominated for this position initially, but that the whole episode was carefully choreographed by Vice President and Chief Puppeteer Cheney, who, pulled the plug on ailing Chief Justice Rehnquist just in time to deflect criticism of Bush post-Katrina, and to support making the case to appoint Roberts as Chief Justice as there simply wouldn't be enough time to appoint TWO justices before October. Brilliant!

OK, perhaps I'm taking this theory a little too far. But when it comes out in the papers in a couple of years, remember you heard it here first.

(Sarcasm alert!)

* as if my opinions or theories count in this country, as I am a Democrat and a liberal Christian.

** not a reference to Trojans, a form of birth control that encourages sex without procreation, which is, of course, just wrong, wrong, wrong.