Subject: Share the View -- John Roberts, Liberal Role Model
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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 09:00:17 +0000

Share the View -- Bloomberg View

A Quick Look at Bloomberg News's Opinion Section for July 5, 2012

THE EDITORS: Some states that have received funds from the national
mortgage settlement are diverting the money to fill short-term budget
gaps. In effect, they “are robbing troubled borrowers of assistance and
jeopardizing their housing recoveries in the process.” [Read more]
And THE EDITORS write, the U.S.’s financial boycott of Unesco hasn't
achieved its goal; meanwhile it “undermines America's professed
commitment to multilateralism.” [Read more]
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MICHAEL KINSLEY: John Roberts’s vote for the health-care law despite
what he personally thinks about Obamacare is a lesson for liberals
grappling with the Citizens United case, which was “correctly decided,
however deplorable the consequences. Liberals ought to show the chief
justice that we too can acknowledge a principle even when we don’t
agree with the result.” [Read more]
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    4. http://bloom.bg/LoXbof

EZRA KLEIN: “When Republicans call the Affordable Care Act ‘the largest
tax increase in the history of the world,’ they’re not only wrongly
supersizing the tax, they’re also attacking a reform that they've long
supported themselves.” [Read more]
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    5. http://bloom.bg/LoX9g5

SUSAN ANTILLA: “White-collar defendants with bottomless checkbooks have
been known to make colossal efforts to paint themselves as
philanthropic pillars of the community” in an effort to reduce their
jail time. Rajat Gupta, the former McKinsey & Co. chief who was
convicted last month of securities fraud, need only look to past
examples of lenient white-collar sentences to collect ideas. [Read
more]
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    6. http://bloom.bg/LoWYBF

GORDON KERR: Currency devaluation won't succeed in the U.K. and
shouldn't be considered a savior for struggling euro countries either.
“Devaluation is not an alternative to sovereign default.” Instead, “a
structured default avoids triggering inflation and helps people plan.”
[Read more]
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