(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
"t was appalling when the House majority leader threatened political retribution against judges who did not toe his extremist political line. But when a second important Republican stands up and excuses murderous violence against judges as an understandable reaction to their decisions, then it is time to get really scared. "
Actually this is a flat out lie
http://cornyn.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=236007
"I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters on some occasions where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in violence, certainly without any justification, but that is a concern I have that I wanted to share. "
He didn't excuse it at all. But the Times will run a correction at the back in small print.
As far as I remember (civics class was a few decades ago) all three branches are co-equal, and each has powers over the others.
Guess the boys at the Times went to a different school.
They respect judges as long as the judges agree with them. If they got a judge who respected the Constitution and ruled accordingly, they'd be all over him, screaming about "right-wing judges and their political agendas". It's the new motto of the Democratic Party - "Free Speech for those who agree."
Well, the New York Times has been in favor of starving innocents since Stalin's time.
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution"
-- Abraham Lincoln (debating Stephen Douglas), 1858
"Evil men, get out of the people's chambers!"
In other news,
bachelors are unmarried men,
ocean is salty,
sky is blue,
and bears s--t in the woods.
Film at 11.
I just don't see any difference between the NY Times, among others, and Pravda of the former Soviet Union, except that we are still - so far - free to criticize them for their abject stupidity.
Where is the outrage from the NYT when Democrats call Republicans "the extra chromosome right wing" or just plain Nazis? They're right in there cheering them on, or at least ignoring this kind of heinous behaviour.
It was appalling when the New York Times slandered and smeared about Republican after Republican who did not toe their neo-communist dogma. But when they lie outright, and present fiction as fact, claiming that Republicans back violence, then it is time to get really scared.
It happened on Wednesday, in a moment that was horrifying even by the rock-bottom standards of the relentless smear campaign by liberal cultists are conducting against the nation's Republicans. They took Senator John Cornyn's comments completely out of context, and tried to link them to a completely unrelated courthouse shooting by a deranged convict. These prevaricators made these specious claims, and yet still pretend to be a press which supposedly protects the truth and reports fairly.
Readers could only cringe at the outright lies and smears posed as fact by the New York Times, as they reachingly stretched desperately to try to link Mr. Cornyn's comments with completely unrelated events. It was sickening that a 'newspaper' would publicly lie, offering wild speculation and careening conclusion as examples of any reporting, let alone as legitimate truth.
All the news that's fit to slant.