We’re talking the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan. I’m 100% behind Allahpundit’s next sentence…
At the rate she’s going, she’ll have fully atoned to the right for being soft on Obama in the last election within, oh, 30 or 40 years.
From Peggy…
There is a growing air of incompetence around Mr. Obama’s White House. It was seen again this week in Supreme Court arguments over the administration’s challenge to Arizona’s attempted crackdown on illegal immigration. As Greg Stohr of Bloomberg News wrote, the court seemed to be disagreeing with the administration’s understanding of federal power: “Solicitor General Donald Verrilli . . . met resistance across ideological lines. . . . Even Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s only Hispanic and an Obama appointee, told Verrilli his argument is ‘not selling very well.’ ” This follows last month’s embarrassing showing over the constitutionality of parts of ObamaCare.
All this crowing is disconcerting to me. It isn't over until the fat lady has sung. The Supreme Court takes more into account than the arguments they hear from lawyers. They look at the law itself, plus the briefs. If the SC decides to rule in favor of the federal government despite the weakness (and wrongness) of their arguments, Noonan is going to have egg on her face. Not that she doesn't deserve that, too.