{"id":8003,"date":"2012-12-10T08:01:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T14:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=8003"},"modified":"2012-12-10T08:05:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T14:05:43","slug":"roberts-rules-of-ardor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/roberts-rules-of-ardor\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: ROBERTS’ RULES OF ARDOR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:<\/strong><\/p>\n

ROBERTS\u2019 RULES OF ARDOR
\nA conservative judge may betray us
\nBy voting in ways that dismay us,
\nSaving Obamacare
\nTo conceal an affair
\nAnd avoid the same fate as Petraeus.<\/p>\n

From the archive:<\/em><\/p>\n

KAGANROO COURT
\nPoor Obama is losing support,
\nBut he still has a sure last resort:
\nHe can perpetrate strange
\nAnd perpetual change
\nPlacing radicals on the High Court.
\n(2010)<\/p>\n

SUPREME INDIFFERENCE
\nShould our judges be judged by their gender,
\nOr the justness of verdicts they render?
\nShould we reckon their race,
\nOr their ken in a case
\nAs a strict Constitution defender?
\n(2009)<\/p>\n

SUPREME IRONY
\nFrom first principles he won\u2019t budge.
\nConstitutionally he won\u2019t fudge.
\nBut with Durbin and Biden
\nAnd their buddies decidin\u2019,
\nHe\u2019s not \u201cfit\u201d to become a judge.
\n(2005)<\/p>\n

PRYOR RESTRAINT
\n\u201cJudicial nominee Pryor
\nMay appeal to authority higher
\nAnd display legal laurels
\nAnd superior morals,
\nBut venality\u2019s what we desire.\u201d
\n(2003)<\/p>\n

LAWRENCE V. TEXAS
\nThe evil with which men are ridden
\nIn normal times hardly is hidden,
\nBut no era\u2019s more awful
\nThan when vice is made lawful
\nAnd propriety, then, is forbidden.
\n(2003)<\/p>\n

COURT DISASTER
\nHow the judges would snicker and snort
\nAnd delight in making sport
\nOf American troops,
\nIndividuals, and groups
\nIn an international court!
\n(2002)<\/p>\n

NO EXCEPTIONS
\nThe rule of law, don\u2019t you see,
\nIs the essence of liberty
\nAnd freedom will end
\nWhen leaders pretend
\n\u201cThe rules don\u2019t apply to me.\u201d
\n(2000)<\/p>\n

LEGAL ISSUE
\nFive Justices\u2019 wanton support
\nPreserves the grim \u201cright\u201d to abort:
\nTo keep babies alive,
\nReplace one of those five
\nAnd establish a life-choosing Court.
\n(2000)<\/p>\n

JUDICIAL RESTRAINT
\nIt\u2019s a perfectly valid complaint:
\nAn activist judge is no saint.
\nSo, give him a jacket
\nThat ties in the back; it
\nWill force him to show some restraint.
\n(1998)<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s limerick:<\/em><\/p>\n

MISADVENTURE
\nIf these weeks must be spent at the mall,
\nBaskets bulging with kitsch big and small;
\nChristmas prelude must be
\nA nonstop shopping spree,
\nDo we miss the true gist of it all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: ROBERTS\u2019 RULES OF ARDOR A conservative judge may betray us By voting in ways that dismay us, Saving Obamacare To conceal an affair And avoid the same fate as Petraeus. From the archive: KAGANROO COURT Poor …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Your Weekly Politickle: ROBERTS' RULES OF ARDOR - Politickles","description":"Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: ROBERTS\u2019 RULES OF ARDOR A conservative judge may betray us By voting in ways t"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3779,4033,3777,1787,3778,4034,1448],"class_list":["post-8003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-john-roberts","tag-judge-roberts","tag-justice-roberts","tag-obamacare","tag-patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act","tag-petraeus","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}