I feel like I'm living in Star Wars Episode III. No wait, Episode III makes more sense.
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay intensified his criticism of the federal courts on Tuesday, singling out Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's work from the bench as "incredibly outrageous" because he has relied on international law and done research on the Internet.
Keep in mind Kennedy is a REAGAN appointee. Delay has just lost it. I mean, blaming the INTERNET for these rulings now?
Oh, but it gets BETTER.
More on the flip.
DeLay said he thought there were a "lot of Republican-appointed judges that are judicial activists."
So Delay who apparently hates these 'activists' now notes they're from HIS OWN PARTY. His only apparent problem with them is they aren't acting on HIS side.
Somebody needs to point out that the Republican solution to 'activist' judges seems to be appointing MORE of them.
"We've got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based upon international law, not the Constitution of the United States? That's just outrageous," DeLay told Fox News Radio. "And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous."
I know Republicans regularly fail history, but man is Delay reaching here for the REALLY stupid history class flunkouts now. Our Constitution was based on 'international laws' and treatises, its not like the founders could just produce the entire thing out of thin air, they needed sources of inspiration and they found them.
And yes, Delay thinks doing research on the Internet is outrageous. Heaven forbid a judge actually do his own research using the available tools rather then parrot what the GOP wants him to parrot. And a Seig Heil to you too, GOP Facist.
And for those of you you think comparing him to the Nazis is going too far, I say to you I think rather I'm being too kind to him.
"The judiciary has become so activist and so isolated from the American people that it's our job to do that," DeLay said.
Yes, activism and isolation, just what we need MORE OF from Congress!
If Democrats don't use that money quote against him, they deserve a swift kick to where it will do most good.
One way would be for the House Judiciary Committee to investigate the clause in the Constitution that says "judges can serve as long as they serve with good behavior," he said. "We want to define what good behavior means. And that's where you have to start."
First they took out the lawmakers.
Then they took out the policy breakers.
Finally they took out the courts and the military.
And all that was left were the Reich, and their slaves.
Update 4/20: The Democrats caught it!
"Has the Internet become the devil's workshop?" said Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat. "Is it some infernal machine now that needs to be avoided by all right-thinking Americans? What is Mr. DeLay trying to say, as he is stretching to lash out at judges who happen to disagree with his political point of view."
Its rare when you can both take down an opponent and have a good laugh at their expense at the same time.