Liberals seek comfort in Roberts and Kennedy?

In her latest column Linda Greenhouse, Supreme Court writer extraordinaire for the New York Times, writes:

And while liberals have every reason to gnash their teeth over the justice who holds the seat that should have been Merrick Garland’s, they can perhaps take some comfort in the unexpected daylight that has opened between him and two of the court’s other conservatives, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy. My concern when Justice Gorsuch joined the court was how like Chief Justice Roberts he seemed in demeanor and professional trajectory. I could see him as a natural ally who would bolster the chief justice’s most conservative instincts. It now seems just as likely that Neil Gorsuch’s main effect on John Roberts will be to get on his nerves.

You know liberals are in deep trouble when they seek comfort in John Roberts, the man whom Senators Ted Kennedy, Richard Durbin, Charles Schumer, Joe Biden and Dianne Feinstein all voted against when he came before them in the Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings. Apparently, Ms Greenhouse hopes that Justice Roberts will "grow while in office."