Crazy Wingnuts

So, I've been thinkin' a lot lately about these crazy wingnuts. You know, the ones that play up to the religious right and want to kill judges and keep PVS patients alive for ever.

Here's some of the crazy things they've said lately, and this is just from one article from The Nation.

"I'm a radical! I'm a real extremist. I don't want to impeach judges. I want to impale them!"

"Ronald Reagan said the Soviet Union was the focus of evil during the cold war. I believe that the judiciary is the focus of evil in our society today."

Removing Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was "an act of terror in broad daylight aided and abetted by the police under the authority of the governor. This was the very definition of state-sponsored terror."

Joseph Stalin offered the best method for reining in the Supreme Court. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him whenever he ran into difficulty: 'No man, no problem.'"

The rising tide of threats against judges "is understandable, but we have to take the opportunity to channel that into a constitutional solution."

My theory is that it's a strategy by Karl Rove and friends to make George Bush and the world-domination crowd appear middle of the road. And in a sense, as far as the social issues go, I 'spect they are near middle of the road. Bush doesn't really care that much about gay marriage does he? He's driven my his greed, and the gay marriage issue doesn't really help him much, unless it keeps Dobson and the gang sending him money.

But suggesting we kill or impale judges is not just radical and extreme politics, it's criminal. And if criminal behavior like this is considered "sort of, maybe, a little bit on the fringe," then we are really in trouble.

Just the other day, in response to DeLay's mean statements ("The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior") about judges, Bush said "I believe in proper checks and balances." In fact if I were George Bush, I might be a little worried about the Legislative Branch declaring war on the Executive branch next. So, in two years or so, I'm bettin' that we'll be hearing things from the main stream media like "we need a moderate republican like George Bush for president. Not one that wants to kill judges"

I must admit, this whole threatening to kill judges spectacle has certainly taken a lot of press away from the fact that we are a nation at war for no apparent reason.