Krauthammer: "Provocation no excuse for derangement"

Charles Krauthammer has a new column up titled "Judicial Insanity" about legislating from the bench, and the ill-advised comments from Tom DeLay and John Cornyn in response. Here's a quote:

Charles Krauthammer - April 22nd, 2005

Provocation is no excuse for derangement. And there has been plenty of provocation: decades of an imperial judiciary unilaterally legislating radical social change on the flimsiest of constitutional pretexts. But while that may explain, it does not justify the flailing, sometimes delirious attacks on the judiciary mounted by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and others in the wake of the Terri Schiavo case.

Krauthammer is correct to scold GOP leaders here, as well as to acknowledge that they've been provoked by an increasingly activist judiciary.

I think it needs to be remembered, however, that though their words may have been ill-advised, the GOP hasn't really done much of anything yet. They've let their frustration get the better of them, but haven't taken any real action. The same cannot be said for the cause of their frustrations. In other words, the reaction is not nearly as egregious as what its been reacting to.

This issue's only going to get bigger.

ť April 22nd, 2005

posted @ 10:51 AM in Miscellaneous

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