How low can he go? DeLay does his best to intimidate federal judges

[struggle4progress]

The Terri Schiavo tragedy brought out the worst in a lot of people, but no one in public life sank lower than House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, whose brazen threats of retribution against judges dishonored the Constitution he is sworn to uphold.

"The time will come," DeLay warned, "for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior."

DeLay may not have intended his threat to recall the recent murder of a judge in an Atlanta courtroom or the killing of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow's husband and mother in February. But neither did he care a bit about the violence his remarks did to the separation of powers that is central to the success of American government.

Remember what prompted this disgraceful attempt at intimidation from a national Republican leader: The federal courts did what Congress unwisely asked in reviewing the Florida courts' decisions in the Schiavo case; they simply failed to rubber-stamp the right-to-life agenda in their rulings. <snip>

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/04/08/ed.edit.judges.0408.html

[isit2008yet]

1. DeLay is crashing and burning...

and he knows he's going down - so his game plan is to take as many as possible with him. Damn the republican party! He knows they will never come to power again so it's on to trashing democracy to elevate fascism before they lose power. As he preaches, his time is likely to come before he impeaches a judge.

[rodeodance]

2. just curious-is the Oregon paper a right or left leaning paper? In either

case--good editorial.