Can’t look at that guy and his pretty little beard without thinking of David Brent. Couldn’t take him seriously anyways.

funny – the shorter I read was “we don’t need no steeeenking checks and balances” – the legislature should do whatever the hell it wants!!!

Can’t we negotiate an inter-timewarp trade of Molly Ivins for Russ Douchehat? That’s the proper place for talent at the NY Times, which used to be relevant and informative.

To state the obvious, what a moron. I just can’t help myself. I had to say it.

Rosenthal should promote himself to somewhere he can’t hurt the paper anymore…after firing his latest mistake. Try quality writer/thinker, then place on political spectrum next time asshole.

Another shallow and self serving article. Thanks Ross.

Miranda and Roe were power grabs? How bout Bush v Gore?

Asshole.

Was there ever a day when there was intellectually stimulating debate on the issues? It seems like it’s been so long.

At least when the New York Times finally tanks for good in the next decade or so, it can be said with certainty that they really did all they could to speed along its demise; picking insufferable asshats (or douthats, as it were) to “write” their way out of the paper’s existential crisis. Like strapping on a lead weight as your plane plummets from the sky…

Under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the Court invalidated federal statutes at an unprecedented rate — and by the barest of majorities, in many cases.

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The modern Court’s most enduringly controversial power grabs — with Roe v. Wade leading the way — were usually the work of liberal justices…

This is wildly inconsistent, but that’s Ross. On the Big Nite, I went to pee and when I came back, breasts spilling out of my pegnoir, he was jerking off over the Calvin Klein ads in my vanity Fair, trying to get hard.

Asshole.

Signed,

Chunky Reese Witherspoon

The best thing about Times columns is the comments. The very first one ripped open the obvious failure of Douchehat to consider the possibility that more silly laws were getting passed.

Now if the Times could just hire somebody to read their columns before they print them, maybe make up a job title like, say, “Editor”, they could have a reasonable opinion page.

Shallow and stupid. Welcome to your new, $2.00 Times!

I didn’t read the comments, but that same thought–that more ill considered laws are getting passed–occurred to me. I wonder how many of the overturned laws were attempts to gut Roe v Wade. Many states have passed anti-abortion laws that they should have known would be found unconstitutional at some point.

Not to mention he states that the supreme court has become too political, and the obvious answer to that is term limits. Soooo, court too political, politicize it to make it less politcal. Hay caramba.

Ross reminds me of the young guys I used to hang out with at happy hour on wall street. After three coors lights, they throw out a few inane one liners – Government sucks! All Criminals should be executed! Liberals eat tofu! – before passing out face first into a mixed bowl of nuts at 8 PM.

Alternate title parsed from All in the Family theme summing up Ross (and the entire up-is-down thinking of the right, for that matter:

Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again

In 1864 there were a total of 36 states, 25 of them were still in the Union. There’s no way that Reconstruction and the addition of fourteen more states in the intervening years could have caused the passage of more laws, some of which might be overturned by the USSC.

i think it is best to ignore the asshat — so’s the times will find another prick we can also ignore.

but “this one” strangely gives off the smell of slightly stale milk and graham crackers — an odor i haven’t sensed in a long time… kindergarten, or maybe childhood sunday school?

That obamicon makes Douthat look like less of a doofus, but then again, so would putting him in a bunny suit.

He has wrested the Wingnut Facemullet crown from the chin of Jonah Doughpants. And he’s closing fast on Bill “Not the Funny One” Kristol’s 0 for 1 batting average. Let’s hope that in his remaining tenure at the NYT he eclipses Tom Friedman’s personal (espousal) financial calamity and David Brooks’ inability to read a restaurant’s price list. Thus he will become the NYT’s “Ultimate Wingnut!”

Under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the Court invalidated federal statutes at an unprecedented rate — and by the barest of majorities, in many cases.
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The judicial mind on drugs…. Not a pretty thought.