DeLay Slams Supreme Court Justice (Kennedy)

[Pirate Smile]

DeLay Slams Supreme Court Justice

By JESSE J. HOLLAND
The Associated Press
Tuesday, April 19, 2005; 7:56 PM

WASHINGTON - 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.

DeLay also said he thought there were a "lot of Republican-appointed judges that are judicial activists."

The No. 2 Republican in the House has openly criticized the federal courts since they refused to order the reinsertion of Terry Schiavo's feeding tube. And he pointed to Kennedy as an example of Republican members of the Supreme Court who were activist and isolated.

"Absolutely. 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."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2438-2005Apr19.html

[rpannier]

1. He used the Internet...OMG NO!!!!!!!!!

He should have used scrubbies internets.

[CO Liberal]

47. Not Only That - He READS BOOKS!!!!!

We need to BURN THEM!!!!

Every book except The Bible and anything written by Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, or Coulter.

:sarcasm:

[rpannier]

49. Did he read the goat story?

I hear it's scrubbies favorite

[cybildisobedience]

65. while we're at it -

can they burn the Internet, too --
all of them?

[PA Democrat]

86. Imagine that. Legal research on the Internet!

Newsflash for Toxic Tom. The vast majority of legal research has been performed via the Internet for YEARS now. These people are so stupid that they think the "Internet" is a synonym for the "rumor mill".

[justjones]

2. He's criticizing "internet" research? Does this retard realize....

there are reputable sources of information on the web?

Delay is a "incredibly outrageous" piece of shit.

[calimary]

88. Does this retard realize that he's slamming a REAGAN appointee?

His precious darling sainted Ronnie put Anthony Kennedy on the highest bench in the land. That should make him sacrosanct.

delay is a steaming pile. That's all I can say. And that's the best I can say about him.

[AlCzervik]

3. Why doesn't he just put a bullseye on Kennedy's back

and save himself the trouble of talking about it. Delay is fucking nuts, he's like Jim Jones right before he mixed up the koolaid, this man is dangerous to others and if something happens to Kennedy Delay should be jailed.

[Straight Shooter]

8. That is precisely what DeLay is attempting to do.

No doubt with Rove's prodding and bush's blessing.

DeLay reminds me of a cornered rabid dog. The closer you get to confining and disposing of him, the more he snarls and froths at the mouth. It's quite a spectacular display of delusional hubris.

[calimary]

83. When they describe him as the "number 2 republi-CON" in the House,

they don't know how accurate they are!

:)

[Pirate Smile]

9. I can just imagine some "unbalanced" wingnut getting his gun

and doing his part to make sure there are more open Supreme Court positions that Bush gets to fill.

[CRK7376]

4. Spin baby spin....

Hopefully DeLay will have a coronary over the Justice System as they declare him guilty of crime......

[rzemanfl]

5. If he does his own research, how can he blame a subordinate if

he makes a mistake? This is so NOT REPUBLICAN no wonder the hammer is so pissed. This puke makes me want to mess with Texas.

[Tummler]

6. To Tom DeLay, "research on the Internet" = "looking at porn"

No wonder he's upset.

[saigon68]

16. DELAY PROBABLY LIKES KIDDIE PORN

He looks like a child molester.

[davidinalameda]

27. that's Thomas

not Kennedy

[Sanity Claws]

7. He does his own research on the internet

What's wrong with that? There are several on-line research tools for attorneys, Westlaw, Lexis, etc. Even the Supreme Court's opinions go on line.
Delay is desperate. When cornered, that bugman may start shooting.

[louis-t]

37. Findlaw is good too.

[wookie294]

10. Delay = Modern Day Joseph McCarthy

Delay will continue disgracing himself and die of alcoholism, just like Joe.

[The Blue Knight]

82. Why does Tom DeLay hate America?

:(

[Bunny]

11. Why, here is Bugman's very own website.

http://tomdelay.house.gov/

If I look for information about him on his own website, am I guilty of *gasp* using the Internet for research?

[maddezmom]

22. worse, guilty of using the "internets"

according to shrub, that's a double whammie.:D

[UpInArms]

34. those internets are a bad place

according to the Dimson

When asked at a news conference in May what he thought about the site, Bush let loose, saying it was produced by a "garbage man" and suggesting that "there ought to be limits to freedom"--a line Bush's online critics have vowed to never let the world forget.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/29/002r-112999-idx.html

(oops! More internets researching! :slap: )

[Paul Dlugokencky]

12. Any connection?

Might there be any connection between DeLay possibly looking at some serious legal troubles and his relatively recent campaign against the judiciary?



http://www.cafepress.com/kickindemocrats

[ClintonTyree]

17. I think most of his problems are ethical in nature....

you know, being a total hypocrite and pushing rules beyond the pale. I'm not sure that he has any chargeable legal offenses. Yet.

Yet I suppose he could be laying the ground work for a preemptive attack on judges should he be indicted.

[Paul Dlugokencky]

24. Preemptive!

He knows if he's crossed any legal lines or not, and if he has, he could be laying that ground work now.

"The best defense is a good offense."



http://www.cafepress.com/kickindemocrats

[tammywammy]

13. Not the internet...noooooo.

At least he was doing research. I'm sure he might use a cellphone too.

Delay is just digging the grave a little deeper each day. He's disgusting and I don't understand how anyone can defend his actions.

Oh, and they're all "activist" judges if you don't agree with their rulings these days.

[Jacobin]

14. Ahem, westlaw and lexis, the two major legal research providers

for lawyers and judges all over the nation are 'on the internet'

the bugman is utterly and completely deranged.

[Hamlette]

23. yeah, almost all lawyers do research on the internet

WTF is he talking about?

I even researched the Schivo case online, was able to find out DeLay was lying about what Congress did.

He has flipped his lid. These comments are the ravings of a mad man.

I only wish Frist had made these stupid comments so he'd be on Jon Stewart again tonight. Eveything Frist is in the news, Jon plays Frist's interview with George Stephanopolous...the Aids is spread by sweat and tears interview...with Frist looking dumber than dirt. I love it.

(edited to wish for the airing of the Frist interview again.)

[Rose Siding]

46. The reporter could have included that info so easily

One call to a professor or a lawyer is so much more work than stenography. :grr:

Does the bugger not know the impact of international law on our Constitution? -beyond the part about not coveting your neighbor's wife, that is.

[Dickie Flatt]

15. You have to be careful, there are a lot of rumors on the Internets

[anarchy1999]

18. Delay needs to just start keeping his mouth shut. It's the only thing

that will save him. God knows, I don't want him saved.

What an idgit thing to say.

"And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous."

He is an idiot. Plain and simple. Or maybe he inhaled too many fumes killing bugs.

[rodeodance]

45. love it when he does silly stuff like this

[Roland99]

68. No..no..no...let him keep blabbering!

The more these idiots talk, the more they damn themselves!

[Placebo]

19. They were bashing Justice Kennedy on Faux News Sunday...

like never before. It was almost a consensus among their paltry panel of "experts" that he is the weakest link, so to speak, and that he's just not very talented or skilled at what he does.

Whatev. :eyes:

[Blue Shark]

20. The more this Boob talks...

...the better I like him. Man, we can't buy this kind of lunacy on the other bench. I hope BushCo snuggles up real close to this fool and holds on tight.

[last_texas_dem]

44. It's funny

For years I only heard a nutty statement from Delay on rare occasions (if still more than from other Congressmen.) Now that he's in hot water, it's like he's decided to prove to the general public just what a nutbag he is. Hopefully that big mouth of his helps bring down the Bug Man before the end of this term.

[calimary]

84. It also tells me some things about the people of Sugarland, Texas,

who keep sending this asshole back to power every other year, that they might find upsetting - and mighty insulting. But then again, when you make your bed, you get to lie down in it. He speaks for YOU, Sugarland. How do you like the way he makes YOU look?

[indepat]

21. Who the f**k does DeLay think he is?

[UpInArms]

32. in DeLay's own words:

"I am the federal government!" DeLay told a restaurant manager last year, according to the Washington Post, when he was asked to put out his cigar to comply with federal law. It's easy to see why he might think so.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/11/10_403.html

(oops! I just researched that on the internet!)

[SammyWinstonJack]

75. Now that's "incredibly outrageous!"

Bugman thinks he's the Federal government and the Chimp fancies himself a dictator. Incredibly Outrageous!

[Sydnie]

25. Oh yeah Delay? Well then, I call BULLSHIT

everytime one of you quote a newspaper article as a reason to pass legislation. No difference really. So, shut up and sit down already Tommy boy. You're a bore!

[bushisanidiot]

26. Kennedy has a lot of NERVE getting info outside Fox "news" or boil ass

Limbaugh's radio brainwashing broadcasts.

he's got NO right to research or look outside the pre-determined neo-con talking points memos WHICH ARE DELIVERED TO HIS DOOR EVERY MORNING ALONG WITH THE WASHINGTON TIMES AND NEW YORK POST.

[Zhade]

28. How DARE Kennedy follow the Constitution!

Who does he think he is, citing international law like it's the highest law of this land when we've signed the treaty?

Oh, wait...

[LatePeriduct]

29. Hahahahaha Tom Delay is going out in a dead ring fire....

Oh no, the judges are now researching the internet to find out a Nazi infested cult of dominionists has taken over the government!!!!

Those damn activist judges, do they realize what they've done!

They have opened up the portal for you to go directly to jail, and for Jack Abramoff to become front page news.

What's that now with all your tough talk? You aren't so threatening when the whole world knows!

Take your final vows because this insane rapture conspiracy is just about over.

[msanthrope]

30. Didn't DeLay Just Compare the Contract on America to the Magna Carta?

I mean, isn't that international law?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-04-13-magn...

SNIP

DeLay likens GOP contract to Magna Carta
WASHINGTON (AP) — To House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, the Republican Party's "Contract With America" ranks right up there with the Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights among the "great documents of freedom."

So says DeLay's Web site. It describes that 1994 campaign treatise, credited with helping the GOP end four decades of House rule by Democrats, "a written commitment that presented to the people an agenda for the House of Representatives."

[LiberalFighter]

31. Does international law pass constitutional muster?

How about WTO?

Geneva Convention?

[Les BOOGIE]

33. How much longer do we put up with this goon? He needs to be

locked up now.

[snippy]

35. Interesting that DeLay feels it wise to throw red meat to the base now.

This is an obvious ploy by DeLay to manipulate the republican base by stoking the fires of hatred among them. But I wonder why DeLay decided to do this now. Is it because he feels weakened and possibly vulnerable and thinks he needs to shore up his support among the republican base? Or is it because he thinks he is invincible and wants to demonstrate that fact to his critics while playing his base for fools? I would love to know.

[grytpype]

36. He's so fucking nuts.

It's going to be reeeeeel sweeeeet when he goes down.

[B Calm]

38. This type of behavior by a US Senator is inexcusable. This man

needs to be behind bars.

[Les BOOGIE]

39. he could never get into the Senate, neither could Poppy n/t

[Beetwasher]

42. He's Completely OUT OF CONTROL!!!!!

Holy crapola! He's just going all in on the crazy train. He's essentially saying "What the fuck, might as well just be totally fucking bat-shit crazy!".

[kodi]

40. its because kennedy used an "international" standard not to execute minors

this is a result of kennedy's use of an evolving international standard of decency in deciding a specific court case. it was first criticised by scalia in public.

kennedy examined the laws of other countries to come to a decision that there was an international standard of decency that precludes the state from executing minors.

delay is pissed off that kennedy states that the rest of the world has evolved to the point where they don't execute children so the US shouldn't either.

delay wants to kill kids. pass it on.

[GainesT1958]

41. Maybe the Bug Man needs to do a little on-line reading of his own...

Preferrably the Federal Penal Code!:eyes:

B-)

[last_texas_dem]

43. Cons are such hypocrites with their Internet-bashing

More often than not, those who have a knee-jerk reaction to getting news or doing research via the Internet are right-wingers. Yet they are also the same blowhards who continue to float the heavily discredited myth that the mainstream media is "lib'rul." If the MSM is so damn "lib'rul" shouldn't these cons be embracing all the alternative media (plenty of that on the "Internets") that they can instead of bitching about these additional resources. There's loads of right-wing trash media on the Internet. Just goes to show how little they must truly believe in their "lib'rul media" mantra. Hypocrisy is certainly nothing new coming from these jerks, though.

[derbstyron]

48. In Delay's defense

At least he did say that some republican judges could be construed as "judicial activists" as well. It seems to me that using this phrase just means it was a decision that you don't like. So to see Delay point out that it works both ways is good.

Of course, having said that Delay is a total scumbag.

[WatchWhatISay]

50. It still doesn't make the whole concept of judicial activism

any more valid. The fact is judges are doing what judges are supposed to do. This is just another incidence of creating a frame for an argument. The frame is false to begin with, but getting it "out there" to the point that even the opposition discuss it only validates the frame.

The latest frame that is now starting to get wide acceptance is that the UN is "broken" and needs reform. It has been repeated on cable TV so many times lately that it is now beginning to be part of accepted American folklore.

[LatePeriduct]

51. And for all those who forgot, the great and wise Tom Delay.

Actions as the great men of this country say, speak much louder than words

"The need to shield judges from outside threats - including those from elected officials like Senator Cornyn - is a priceless principle of our democracy. Senator Cornyn offered a smarmy proclamation of "great distress" at courthouse thuggery. Then he rationalized it with broadside accusations that judges "make raw political or ideological decisions." He thumbed his nose at the separation of powers, suggesting that the Supreme Court be "an enforcer of political decisions made by elected representatives of the people." Avoiding that nightmare is precisely why the founders made federal judgeships lifetime jobs and created a nomination process that requires presidents to seek bipartisan support.

Echoes of the political hijacking of the Terri Schiavo case hung in the air as Mr. Cornyn spoke, just days after the House majority leader, Tom DeLay, vengefully vowed that "the time will come" to make the judges who resisted the Congressional Republicans' gruesome deathbed intrusion "answer for their behavior." Trying to intimidate judges used to be a crime, not a bombastic cudgel for cynical politicians.

The public's hope must be that Senator Cornyn's shameful outburst gives further pause to Senate moderates about the threats of the majority leader, Senator Bill Frist, to scrap the filibuster to ensure the confirmation of President Bush's most extremist judicial nominees. Dr. Frist tried to distance himself yesterday from Mr. DeLay's attack on the judiciary. But Dr. Frist must carry the militants' baggage if he is ever to run for president, and he complained yesterday of "a real fire lighted by Democrats around judges over the last few days."

By Democrats? The senator should listen to what's being said on his side of the aisle, if he can bear it. "

http://www.yuricareport.com/Congress/JudgesMadeThemDoIt.html

[0007]

76. Excellent post!

[LatePeriduct]

89. THE FLYING ALBATROSS: Without his WINGS

http://houseofscandal.org

The web keeps getting bigger and uglier, as the freepers prepare to incinerate and eat their own man alive!!!

[Voltaire99]

52. I don't like Kennedy, either. But Delay's conducting a witch hunt.

Kennedy's a conservative with occasional moderate leanings--yet another solemn defender of America, Inc.

But Delay's reign of terror must be countered. Dems in Congress should be denouncing the anti-intellectual, nativist pinnings of his attack upon Kennedy, which is loopy and very, very dangerous.

As we have learned from Democratic failures over the past two decades, Dems must counter the madness of the other side.

Or the other side walks all over us.

When Howard Dean tells you to talk quietly and bite your tongue, ignore him and stand up and fight!

[LatePeriduct]

53. Two Words. Barbara Boxer.

Have her get up in the senate and interrogate this man for lying about Jack Abramoff and whatever else he condones as ethical, including point the finger right at him for Votergate.

He's the one who said the challenge to the electoral college was quote

"The most absurd, clearly anti-american thing the democrats have ever done! They should hang their heads in shame, what this attack clearly is coming from the X-Files wing of the democratic party.

Those who would lie to us, and put jesus' name in vain by endorsing these conspiracy theorists."

Well, someone should ram it down his throught now. He was complicit in fraud. Ram it home.

[renaissanceguy]

72. When has Howard Dean ever said that?

You apparently have no clue about him... he got where he is because he is outspoken, and he tells us to be outspoken, too.

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues/472476

[Voltaire99]

81. Clues come in different shapes and sizes

The clue you are seeking is Dean's foolish comments earlier this week regarding changing our rhetoric on abortion. Look it up; I can't read the news for you.

[annabanana]

54. GO Tom!.... ATTACK those Republicans....go go go go go go

(isn't this fun)

[trapper914]

55. I Hate To Go All "John McCain" here...

"However, DeLay has called repeatedly for the House to find a way to hold the federal judiciary accountable for its decisions. "The judiciary has become so activist and so isolated from the American people that it's our job to do that," DeLay said.

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."

It cuts both ways, Tommy-Boy. Let's start defining bad behavior based on politics. What the hell? I say we start with Scalia's hunting trip with Cheney when the federal court system was hearing the secret energy meetings issue.

[wicket]

56. he's got a lot of gall

Considering all of his ethics problems.

[0007]

57. The world according to Tom DeLay!

"We want to define what good behavior means. And that's where you have to start."

[Flammable Materials]

58. The GOP is all but INVITING crackpots to kill Kennedy.

Hell, they seem to have a thing for executing people in power who happen to have that last name.

[Vinca]

59. Every time that little cockroach Delay opens his mouth, all I can think

is THIS MAN WAS AN EXTERMINATOR! Who the hell is he to be advising Supreme Court justices? Unless, of course, they have silverfish in the lunch room.

[underpants]

60. DeLay Criticizes Supreme Court Justice

1 hour, 1 minute ago

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/delay_judges

WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's work from the bench has been "incredibly outrageous," his latest salvo at the federal judiciary in the weeks following the courts' refusal to stop Terri Schiavo's death.

DeLay also labeled a lot of the courts' Republican appointees as "judicial activists," a term applied by conservatives to judges they dislike for not following what they call strict interpretations of the Constitution.

"Absolutely. 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 on Tuesday. "And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous."
:shrug:

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 (Delay) said. "We want to define what good behavior means. And that's where you have to start."

[thoughtanarchist]

61. Act out against the "nuculer" option...

petition here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1734817

[ewagner]

62. He's feeding red meat to his base

He must believe that he's in trouble and needs to rally the faithful to keep himself in power...

This man is dangerous...and those who give him voice (Fox News, Rush, Hannity, et al)are equally dangerous.

[RubyDuby in GA]

63. I saw that and sent it to people I know

He's got to be kidding right???? Pot this is Kettle........Kettle, I'd like to introduce you to Pot. You're both black.
I wonder if he can still see daylight from that deep hole that he's dug himself into.
I see that's he's pissed because Kennedy, a Reagan appointee, isn't towing the party line. What a pathetic excuse for a human being.

And it's funny that the line you bolded was the exact one that I pointed out to them.

[underpants]

64. "We want to define what good behavior means."-KICK

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."

[LatePeriduct]

66. "Good Behavior is like I tell you"

"And that's where you have to start"

"Do I have good behavior?" "Look at me pay strippers using campaign funds, and prancy about during election fraud. Look at me shake hands with Jack Abramoff and the popes of our time, while gambling away my communion money on a casino turned Indian Resevervation"

"I am the all time american example of good behavior. I am the federal government!"

"Look at my amazing websites, I am completely doing things within the legal law."

http://www.prayeralert.org

[Auntie Bush]

67. Waaaaat! Is he using the left wing Internet instead of the

right wing Internet. Never fear...those days are probably coming.

[Orsino]

69. Tick, tick, tick... n/t

[Festivito]

70. He meant Kennedy was researchING on the Internet.

I think it is refreshing that a justice does his own research on the Internet, perhaps he researches other topics, slso on his own.

I wonder if the Bible would be considered "International law?"

Oh, this DeLay guy is a overwhelming source of humor.

[dave29]

71. Quick, someone prove DeLay used the internet to dig up dirt on Kennedy

Please.

[ernstbass]

73. Keep running that mouth Tommy

Does anyone else here think that he looks like he is made of plastic?(with shit on the inside of course)

[0007]

74. I now know Tom DeLay is insane with power & greed.

A few days ago DeLay came out and said he kind of misspoke about the judges in a time of excitement. Then junior came out in support of DeLay and now DeLay goes back into his arrogant behavior.

[gordianot]

77. DeLay reminds me of an old tom cat we used to have.

He was really hard on kittens even after he was neutered.

[Clark Bayh 2008]

78. Frightening that this aimed at the Repub "base"

Imagine how many republican voters are further to the right than the base. I think we're headed for a real showdown like in 1860. Good has always triumphed over evil in the end. Can the Frist/Delay wing really beat out the McCain/Giuliani/Governator wing in the next 3 years?

Maybe DeLay doesn't realize Anthony Kennedy isn't related to Ted. Does anybody remember who appointed AK?
This is beyond laughable.

I wish Clark would come forward & make even a mild rebuking comment.

[spooky3]

79. Keep it up, Tom--and Kennedy and others who are often

supportive of your party's position will more quickly see how wrong they have been and will gradually move more to the left.

That's a really shrewd strategy for you.

:sarcasm:

[Penndems]

80. Yeah? Did he beat up on Reagan, too?

After all, the idol of the Republican Party, that Great Communicator, appointed Kennedy to the bench.

Just wondering . . .

[Glenda]

85. Maybe DeLay needs a medical exam by Dr Frist

He sounds deranged. Actually they both do.

These guys are starting to entertain me !

:popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:

[Mondon]

87. Frist: "here, kitty kitty"