Anyone else surprised that a Republican dominated SCOTUS

[redstateblues]

has ruled the way it has this week? The wing nuts are apoplectic today! Fox news talking heads are very grim. What a great way to start the weekend.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. A lovely week for Schadenfreude.

I enjoy watching their misery.

[oldandhappy]

6. I need to learn to spell that S word!

It is such a great word. Thanks.

[B Calm]

2. After the Bush vs Gore decision, this has been a total surprise!

[onehandle]

5. Are you forgetting Heller and Citizens United?

Bush v Gore wasn't their last sin.

[Auggie]

7. No. These latest rulings are just bones they've thrown ...

yeah, they're great rulings, but they don't affect the balance sheets or power of the 1%.

[onehandle]

3. No. Marriage is big business.

Like guns and politics.

Money trumps social issues with this court.

[Nye Bevan]

4. Both the rulings are good for the Republicans

despite the obligatory huffing and puffing.

With the ACA, they now do not have to demonstrate their utter inability to come up with a fix that would prevent millions from losing insurance. And for marriage equality, now they can be all "well I don't like it but now it's the settled law of the land, let's move on".

[Johonny]

8. They will run against gay marriage, it is a wheel house issue for the GOP

Hating gays and women is the GOP platform. Just like abortion was not settled by the supreme court, gay marriage will not be either. They will suck in votes running mean spirited hate campaigns against it with the promise of overturning ACA, gay marriage and Abortion. They are still running again income tax and the FED. They never move on. They want the 19 th century back.

[Bobbie Jo]

9. Truth and justice

have a liberal bias.

The Court simply did its job because it was forced to do so.

Stellar week!

[Sunlei]

10. No all the republican parties, resorts, events invite the same Justices over and over.

[Orsino]

11. SCOTUS has just strewn roses in the path of any GOP '16 candidate...

...who might find the struggle wearying. The ones who strut and claim not to accept settled law will identify themselves early as only in it for the grift.

[cascadiance]

12. They are paving the way for angry Republicans to give them a TPA enabled congress and president...

if they Republicans gain gain control of those bodies then... in 2016, so they can pass everything they want as a "trade deal" without a threat of even a filibuster then for that four year period!

We'll see how many Republicans feel as populists if their party is working for them or for the corporate people behind the scenes.

[Igel]

13. No.

All that ill-will that people see in others when things aren't decided their way is mostly on the part of those who don't get things decided their way.

If you hate somebody who really doesn't care what you think or have any hard feelings for you, it's just self-absorbed ego-centric hate. Hard to justify that.

Much easier to say that they hated you first, and you're just responding with defensive or reciprocal hate. Even if they still don't really care what you think or have any feelings for you one way or another.

How many times to teachers hear, "You hate me!" only to look at the kid and think, "It's day 3 of the school year. Who are you, again, and were you even in my classroom yesterday?"

[KamaAina]

14. Not really.

Kennedy has always been strong on LGBT issues, just as Breyer is weak on business issues. And we already knew Roberts leaned toward the ACA.

[kentuck]

15. No

It was pure politics. The Court doesn't care about gay marriage. They care about politics. They believe this is the hottest issue out there, along with Obamacare, that will fire up the Republican base. They have probably succeeded, in my opinion. If they had voted otherwise, Republicans would have no incentive at all to go to the polls.