re: #167 Talking Point Detective

“He’s likely to be affected by what the political atmosphere is at the time,” Seidman said. “It’s going to matter to him whether it looks like the whole law is a mess and needs to be put out of its misery, or whether it looks like it’s actually starting to work.”

That is the part that will matter to Kennedy. He has taken on the pragmatist cloak left behind when O’Connor stepped down. Roberts is not a pragmatist and is every bit as likely to vote against the Health care bill as Scalia, Alito, and Thomas.