As Paul and I have already noted, the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision is carefully circumscribed and may or may not ultimately amount to much. (“Meaningless,” is now appellate lawyer Mark Arnold described the decision.) But that hasn’t stopped lefties (hardly any of whom have actually read the opinion, of course) from going crazy.
The funniest reactions so far have come from lefties responding to the SCOTUSblog’s Twitter feed. These individuals suffer from the misapprehension that in addressing SCOTUSblog, they are talking to the U.S. Supreme Court. The folks at SCOTUSblog couldn’t resist responding in character–sort of–and the results are pretty funny. You can see lots of distressed lefty tweets at Twitchy, but here are a few of my favorites:
Sticks and stones RT @Im_X1: @SCOTUSblog You disgust me. The very antithesis of all the United States stands for. You all should be ashamed.
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 30, 2014
File a petition MT @yenisargueta: Thanks for not giving me the choice to my own body @SCOTUSblog Can I get carrots banned cause I want to?
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 30, 2014
Or eating the cheap Kung Pao Chicken MT @NYCPainter1: Of all the bad decisions @SCOTUSblog made the last few years, #HobbyLobby is the worst
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 30, 2014
One progressive read SCOTUSblog’s snarky responses to the lefties’ misguided complaints, and still thought he was reading the words of the court’s justices (Scalia, most likely):
The passive aggressive way @SCOTUSblog is answering right now is horrible considering the position they just put women in. Not okay.
— Oliver Christensen (@WollyWollenberg) June 30, 2014
Somehow, we conservatives have to figure out better ways of appealing to the impenetrably stupid. It isn’t going to be easy.
