Quote of the Day II

"What's [Chief Justice Roberts] supposed to think? That he finds his allies to be a bunch of crackpots? Does that help the conservative movement? I mean, what would you do if you were Roberts? All the sudden you find out that the people you thought were your friends have turned against you, they despise you, they mistreat you, they leak to the press. What do you do? Do you become more conservative? Or do you say, 'What am I doing with this crowd of lunatics?' Right? Maybe you have to re-examine your position. I mean, I've become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy." -- 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner, a conservative who was appointed to the Court by Ronnie Raygun. Here's his interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg. More evidence that today's Rethuglican / New Confederate Party has become increasingly radical and unhinged.