Oh what tangled webs they weave...

...and what interesting paths we follow when nailing down the anti-American activities of the radical destructionists at the helm of the Republican Party.

Start with Oliver, commenting on the Cornyn corrolary to the DeLay insanity. He points us to Ezra...

As a party, they should be ashamed. As individuals, they should be clamoring to expel the offenders. What Tom Delay and his friends are advocating is, in the simplest and clearest terms, unAmerican. And anyone who stands by while they do it in order to benefit from the demagoguery is betraying their country as well.

Ezra, in turn, references and summarizes Jesse, summarizing...

His basic point is that if you destroy the judiciary, the country will ride with the whim of the people. Ignorant legislators profiting from backlash politics can work their obscene magic on the government free from robed authorities stepping forward to outlaw the unconstitutional, or the just plain insane. Considering the portion of the Christian Right's agenda that checks the "unconstitutional" and "insane" boxes, that's a Good Thing.

And Jesse has more...

Republicans are now trying to artificially constrain the power of the judiciary, by manufacturing a judiciary which isn't allowed to hear anything...

...the thing they have going for them is that most people don't honestly know what the judiciary is supposed to do. Conservatives ask that courts have a "traditional" view of the law, but the traditional function of the courts is unknown to most Americans.

Great stuff, every bit of it.

Yes, indeed. The kids are alright.

And all right, too.