Off the Deep End
Okey-doke, folks. Buckle your seat belts, because it's going to be a very bumpy ride. Just paid a visit to Dobson's little fascist family website, and found a link to his April 2005 newsletter on, you guessed it, judicial activism. I was halfway through and found this scary bit:

These lower federal courts serve at the pleasure of the Congress, which can abolish or create them at will. For example, the troublesome Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which consistently issues off-the-wall rulings, (including the Pledge of Allegiance decision in 2002) could be abolished and then staffed by different judges immediately. But the Congress has not had the political gumption to take any such action. Consequently, the Courts arrogantly thumb their noses at the other co-equal authorities.

Yes, you read that right. Herr Dobson & Co. think that troublesome courts can be abolished and re-staffed at the whim of Congress. And what or who defines a troublesome court, one might wonder. Well, he goes on:

So the unchecked judiciary plows ahead. In March of this year, the Supreme Court struck down laws duly passed in 18 states permitting the execution of minors. With that decision by five justices, the sentences of John Lee Malvo and other heinous killers were commuted. Malvo shot ten innocent people standing peacefully on the streets just for the thrill of watching them die, yet he will not pay the ultimate price for his murderous spree. Neither will Christopher Simmons, who broke into a house, bound and gagged an innocent woman with duct tape, beat her unmercifully, and then threw her body over the railing of a bridge. The autopsy revealed that she was still alive when Simmons dropped her to the river below. And this was done for six dollars found in Shirley Ann Crook's purse. Does Simmons deserve to live? I think not.

Culture of Life, My Ass. But wait, now we get to the point of his diatribe:

During his first term in office, President Bush tried repeatedly to nominate conservative, strict constructionist judges to a variety of vacant positions on Federal Courts of Appeals and District Courts throughout the country. However, he was thwarted at every turn by liberal senators, led by the recently "retired" Tom Daschle. The former Senator consistently led filibusters of nominees or engaged in otherwise obstructionist tactics to ensure that they would never receive a fair hearing. Today's liberals in the Senate need to understand that they will be held accountable at the ballot box if they try to prevent up or down votes on judicial nominees.

In a bold and principled move, the President has defied his liberal opponents in Congress by re-nominating twenty top-notch individuals and sending their names to the Senate for appointment to various judicial vacancies nationwide. These judges are all committed to applying the Constitution of the United States in a conservative manner and interpreting it as it is written. If these individuals, and many others like them, were to be appointed to the federal bench, we could make significant strides toward the restoration of religious speech to the public square, the enforcement of laws regulating obscenity, the protection of voluntary prayer in public schools, the defense of the institution of traditional marriage, and the protection of pre-born babies from the horrors of abortion.

[Notice that they're calling them "pre-born" rather than "unborn" now? It must poll better.] If Dobson and his fellow "strict constructionists" get their way, we are headed for a theocracy. I am posting this because I don't want people to think that the Schiavo case was a turning point, and that we can all breathe a sigh of relief now that the polls showed most Americans were appalled by the religious protesters and the government's intervention. I urge you all to go read his newsletter in its entirety. It is a blueprint to the American Taliban's beliefs on this issue and strategy for the future.

ps--It also calls for the impeachment of Justices Kennedy, O'Connor, Ginsberg, Souter, Breyer, and Stevens. I shit you not.
- posted by TJ @ 4:31 PM