For once, the Bugman was right about something.
In an interview with Byron York, Tom DeLay had the following to say regarding Scalia’s smackdown decision that required DeLay to stay on the ballot in November:
…courts up to the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected DeLay’s arguments, and then Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who handles such matters for the Fifth Circuit, rejected DeLay’s argument in a matter of hours. I asked DeLay if he had a problem with Scalia’s handling of the case. “Yes, I do,” DeLay said. “He obviously spent no time looking at what’s happening in the court in which he has oversight. Within three hours, he denied this stay.”
“You can always count on the judiciary to make stupid rulings,” DeLay told me. “Not only stupid, but dangerous.”
Hmmmmm……What other stupid rulings come to mind?
hat tip to TPM for the link.
and too obvious (so, I’m ashamed really to state it) is the Supreme Court decision and declaration of GWB as the PUSA in ’00.
Perhaps Mr. DeLay thinks differently about that one?
Of course it wasn’t the judiciary in this case, but Scalia specifically. So was Delay specifically calling him stupid and dangerous? Even being half right is a breakthrough achievement for him.
just as stupid was the SCOTUS decision allowing government to seize private property under eminent domain to hand it over to private developers.
There’s a proposition on the California ballot to prevent that…can’t remember which one. (Thinking about doing a series of diaries on the California propositions — maybe some other folks can do diaries on state measures on their November ballots…)
Sometimes Scalia gets it right. As bad as he can be he doesn’t scare me as much as Thomas and Alito in that order.
With some of the things Delay and other Republican say I wonder if Democrats should pass a law when they get control requiring a minimum IQ of say, 75. Of course, they wouldn’t buy it if it were retroactive because too many Republicans would have to leave.