GEPHARDT VOWS MASSIVE RESISTANCE
to Supreme Court decisions:

[Gephardt] "When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day."
emphasis added) Reading this statement again just increases my incredulity. Also, the blanket "any thing" should send a shiver down one's spine. This is worse than anything that "fascist Bush" has ever said.

No word on any plans he might have to call out the National Guard or the Army to make sure the Court's decisons aren't enforced.

A few observations:

We don't have to speculate about what the media and public reaction would have been if a Republican candidate were to say the same thing, before, say, a conservative group, do we? He would be hounded from the race - rightly so. This is a case, one of many, where they don't mind how something is done as long as it's "their side" not "the other side" doing it.

When Democrats talk about "restoring our Democracy", this is the kind of thing they want: Rule By Decree, as long as it's by their guy. (Don't tell me I'm wrong - show me. React to this the same way you would if the shoe were on the other foot. Everything else is just popping smoke as far as I'm concerned).

When the Democrats speak of "uniting us", this is what they mean: pandering on the basis of race. Sort of Orwellian of them, but we won't get into that right at the moment. Gephardt was (yah, I said "was") one of the more serious candidates. Now he's shown that he's not above pandering to the extremists who control the nominating process.
With Gephardt's statement and Kerry's vitriol last week, they are engaging in self-mutilation and clearing the decks for the more serious and electable candidate - Joe Lieberman - I hope.

I like to think that if Paul Tsongas (D - MA) were still alive, he'd give Gephardt a "Pander Bear".
How soon we forget this piercing quote.
But, who knows? I never thought Gephardt would go this far, so if Paul had lived, it may be that he'd have ended up following these people over the cliff too.

But I like to think otherwise.