Why such aggrieved surprise? Roberts' pro-business, anti-consumer, anti-environment record was spread out for all to see. Not to mention his arch-conservative views on education and women's rights.

Anybody who expected he would undergo a "road to Damascus" conversion when he took the bench was listening with wishful "ears" to this slickster's testimony at his confirmation hearings.

For shame, ye cowardly, kiss-up legislators, and ye pundits whose wishful thinking helped saddled our country with this "young" Roberts dinosaur and his like-minded "young" colleague, slick Sam Alito, for generations yet to come.

When Justice Stevens goes to his reward, the Court will pander even further to the interests of Big Business against those of the People -- and of the Constitution the Justices swore to uphold. Welcome to the male, Catholic majority!