What the activist judges in California have shown is that the traditional definition of marriage is under assault by a cadre of lawyers and judges who hold the will of the voters in contempt

Actually, sir, what the judges in California have shown us is that the very structure of our government provides avenues to reverse situations in whith the voters themselves hold their fellow citizens in contempt.

Broun is just yet another gibbering idiot who doesn’t understand the purpose of the judiciary in this country. He’s clearly never bothered to read the Constitution even once in his entire life. If he had, he’d understand that the Constitution itself tells us that the will of the voters is not sacrosanct and above reproach or remedy.

I can’t say this enough times: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN “ACTIVIST JUDGE.” When fascists and bigots like Broun use the term “activist judge,” what they really mean is “a judge who is doing their job properly, but in a way that doesn’t suit me ideologically, because I am a self-obsessed piece of crap who thinks that the world revolves around me and what I think.” I think that the term “activist judge” ought to be forcibly excised from our political discourse, and the people who use it unironically need to be summarily removed from the public eye and prohibited from ever entering it again for the rest of their lives. Self-serving stupidity and half-witted narcissism shouldn’t be rewarded with political power.

And I’m all for supporting the disabled, but why, why can’t we put those energies toward the *viable* disabled? The ones whose lives aren’t going to implode when they are just a few thousand cells big?

It kills me because the idea of “right to life” is not bad… if we could just apply it to real people who have been born already instead of zygotes. But of course it’s not really about protecting “life” is it? Because then we’d have to work together to protect yucky brown people, and poor people and people from other lands and lots of other unworthy souls. And that’d be the worst!

Would that be kidnapping? Unlawful restraint? Would the state be required to step in and find wombs for them all? Talk about being homeless! As homeless minors, do they qualify for welfare?

But… California is resolving it at the ballot box. And he’s trying to override that using federal intervention…

I don’t know…Zell Miller also hails from the state and is very capable of the same statements.

GA’s Dems are like most other southern Dems…some leftover Dixiecrats, and the others are mostly near the moderate end of the party (Cleland voted with Zell quite a lot; even Jimmy Carter was pro-life.) 20% of state Dems voted for Bush in ‘04, one of the highest in any state (which puts the “only 33% of Clinton supporters in KY will vote for Obama!!11!!” stuff into perspective; that was a similar state in terms of defections.)