Quote of the Day

"Supporters of the Affordable Care Act, starting with President Barack Obama, have generally taken the high road in response to Thursday’s decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the heart of the law. Graciousness in victory is, perhaps, its own reward. But it may also be appropriate, on the occasion of the 6–3 decision in King v. Burwell, to observe that this lawsuit was from its inception a shameful and cynical exercise, which illustrated the debasement of the contemporary conservative legal movement."

Jeffrey Toobin  in The New Yorker

 

Randomness at the End of June

• It seems that most of the rest of the world is pretty satisfied with Obama's foreign policy. The comparison between 2008 and 2015 is striking.
• I have never agreed with Antonin Scalia's judicial philosophy, but it is sad to see a once-respected jurist turn into a caricature of himself. He is becoming more and more irrelevant.
• The Occupy movement has been dismissed as some sort of failure, but it is the single biggest reason that we are talking about income inequality today.
• Similarly, folks can talk about Eric Snowden in any way they want, but he is the reason we are starting to rein in the NSA.  We should let him come home. (Maybe he deserves a ticker tape parade.)
• I wish Obama had pursued some of his other proposed policies with as much ardor and passion as he did for the TPP.