DeLay Claims Judiciary "Runs Amok"

At Rev. Rick Scarborough's conference yesterday ("Lynch a Judge Near You!") -- discussed in the previous item down-column -- Tom DeLay sent videotaped remarks that are front-page news this a.m. DeLay just can't help himself. He's for ratcheting up the rhetoric against judges:

"Mr. DeLay faulted courts for what he said was their invention of rights to abortion and prohibitions on school prayer, saying courts had ignored the intent of Congress and improperly cited international standards and precedents. 'These are not examples of a mature society,' he said, 'but of a judiciary run amok.' "

"I am in favor of impeachment," Michael Schwartz, chief of staff to Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, said in a panel discussion on abortion at the conference yesterday, suggesting "mass impeachment" might be needed. What a visual on Fox News that will provide!

I watched much of yesterday's conference on C-SPAN and noticed all the empty chairs in the room. And although every speaker who got to the microphone was obviously coached to rave about the masses of patriotic Americans who had turned out, the NYTimes estimated the crowd as a "few dozen."