JOHN CORNYN MUST RESIGN

This is the latest outrage from a man who has made a career of them. More here.

As I said yesterday in response to similar remarks by Tom DeLay about the judges involved in the Terri Schiavo case, if some wingnut decides to take it upon him/herself to practice a little "judicial activism" of his/her own by attacking a duly appointed judge, Cornyn and DeLay will have to face their own responsibility for creating a political climate in which such an action could be perceived as justified.

Take it from a resident of Texas, the barbarians are not at the gates, they're representing us in Washington.

On another note, I just loved this part:

...Cornyn criticized the Supreme Court's 5 to 4 decision on March 1 that said it is unconstitutional to execute people who were under 18 when they committed their crimes. "In so holding," Cornyn said, "the U.S. Supreme Court said: We are no longer going to leave this in the hands of jurors. We do not trust jurors. We are no longer going to leave this up to the elected representatives of the people of the respective states."

Of course, Cornyn and his cronies demonstrated their great love and trust for juries in their tort reform initiatives, didn't they?

UPDATE: From the Nashua Advocate:

There aren't many rules of behavior in the United States Senate.

For the most part, the body is a self-policing one, and one of its fundamental traits, throughout its august history, has been decorum.

However, one inviolable rule--or at least it says here--is that a sitting United States Senator must not excuse, condone, or seek to mitigate acts of terrorism committed against Americans on American soil.

A sitting United States Senator must not excuse, condone, or seek to mitigate the assassination of members of the federal government of the United States.

And a sitting United States Senator must do nothing whatsoever to promote, encourage, or justify continued acts of terrorism upon, or the attempted assassinations of, members of the federal government of the United States.

A Republican Senator from the State of Texas has just done all three of these things--and thus, in the view of this news outlet, has forfeited his job in the United States Senate.