I saw on C-span www.stopactivistjudges.org today

[adigal]

and they scared the hell out of me. They were on for about 3 hours today, and they are so far right, I wonder if C-Span puts them on so they can discredit themselves.

Sen. Tom Coburn, new senator from Oklahoma who said that doctors who perform abortions should get the death penalty, sent his Chief Aide. His aide, furiously, said that we should impeach and remove every judge who was involved in the Schiavo case. I guess that includes the Supreme Court, because the next wingnut host said that we should start with the Supreme Court. He said they can be impeached even if they did not have the 2/3 to remove because it will teach those judges a lesson. Not, he hastened to add, that they are trying to intimidate. It is just that after they get through "reeducating" the American public, and impeaching the judges, the judges will come to agree with them, because their cause is moral and the only correct one.

I have to say, I was very fricking scared when watching these wackos. And the Catholic woman wearing the blood red lipstick, representing the Bishops, was really pissing this Catholic off. She said they will have postcards in every church, ready to mail to Congress, demanding that our representatives only vote for PRO-LIFE judges (I guess if they love war and the death penalty, that is Okey-dokey!) I say, steal every fricking postcard out of your churches. Call to action!!! Go Catholics!!!

Or at least report the Catholic church to the IRS for politicizing so they lose their tax-exempt (gasp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) status.

[Frances]

1. Will reporting this to the IRS do any good?

I don't have TV so I couldn't watch this, but I did read the Washington Post article and it scared me.

Has the whole country been taken over by these nuts?

[lyonn]

2. This was the worst group of right wingers

I have ever seen and heard. You are right, scary, saying we should obey gods laws and not mans because men can change their laws! Duh, what are they trying to do. Obviously they don't believe in "thinking" studying (reading) analyzing the world around them. Their activist judges gave us Bush. They also did a number on the Constitution, turning and twisting the words. According to them christians and christ's teachings are the only important rules we need to obey here in the U.S. No wonder so few admit to being agnostic or athiest, let along some different religion other than christianity. They are so out of touch. After about an hour of their rants I had quit listening. The sad part is so few listen to these type people and don't know their true intent.

[adigal]

3. We need to spread what they want

Rolling Stone had an article on the Dominionists, and how they want to execute active homosexuals and those who have an abortion. I sent the article to about 15 people. The repubs won't read it, but perhaps the title and subtitle will sneak in. That 18% of the country think they can hold the rest of us hostage with their wacky beliefs is very scary.

[ginnyinWI]

6. is the religious right really 18%? Yikes.

If so that is really scary. If 18% of the voters said they were RR, that's better, because then that is only 18% of half of the people. I wonder how many of the RR actually voted.

[Liberty Belle]

9. Link to the Rolling Stone article, please?

[lyonn]

4. Forgot to add,

Will the media let us know how this group and their followers plan to take over this country, you know, straighten it out (sarcasm).

Nope - no news here.

[ginnyinWI]

5. Cspan had someone from the other side on this morning

She was on Washington Journal and was very good at smacking down the rightie callers.

http://www.cspan.org/VideoArchives.asp?z1=&PopupMenu_Name=Judiciary/Courts&CatCodePairs=Issue,JC;

(first one on the page)

[sakabatou]

7. The white-coats are coming! The white-coats are coming!

[amjucsc]

8. So the church's idea of an activist judge...

Is one who is pro choice? So that must mean that a non-activist, strict constructionist judge is one who looks at the Constitution's famous 'the government shall allow no woman to get an abortion amendment' and merely uses it to interpret the law... Of course, it all makes sense now!...

[radfringe]

10. NO ONE EXPECTS THE REPUBLICAN INQUISITION

NO ONE EXPECTS THE REPUBLICAN INQUISITION

Republicans Step Up Attacks on Judiciary
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&e=4&u=/nm/20050408/pl_nm/politics_judges_dc
Fri Apr 8, 3:08 PM ET Politics - Reuters
By Alan Elsner

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Christian conservatives, led by some top Republicans, are stepping up their assault on the U.S. judiciary in response to the Terri Schiavo case, saying judges are attacking religion and must be reined in.

At a conference on Thursday and Friday organized by the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration, an umbrella group bringing together many religious conservative organizations, prominent Republicans joined with activists to assault what they term "judicial activism."

House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay, under fire for his use of campaign dollars and other ethical problems, addressed the conference in a videotaped message on Thursday in which he denounced a "judiciary run amok."

"Our next step, whatever it is, must be more than rhetoric," the Texas Republican told the conference, entitled "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith."