What???!

I heard him say it, and I gasped. My kids in the back seat shouted, "What? What?" because they don't listen to NPR news on the radio, nor would they have understood the ridiculousness of Bush's statement.

"When judges insist on imposing their arbitrary will on the people, the only alternative left to the people is an amendment to the Constitution, the only law a court cannot overturn."

ARBITRARY WILL?? ARBITRARY??? Could we possibly give our federal judges a little credit, that maybe they are interpreting the written laws? That's kinda their job. They're sure as hell better at it than Bush is, who doesn't seem to have much respect for laws, anyway. Many of those judges were even appointed by Republicans.

It's just classic Republican smoke and mirrors- deflect attention away from the issues at which they're failing, like the monsterous and ballooning national debt, the disasterous war, Haditha, illegal wiretapping, a complete lack of coherent energy policy, the Medicare prescription plan fiasco, human rights abuses in Guantanamo, etc. etc. etc. From Harry Ried: "This is another one of the President's efforts to frighten, to distort, distract and confuse America. It is this administration's way of avoiding the real problems American Citizens are confronted with each and every day."

I don't know why I gasped out loud like that. I shouldn't be shocked by anything this administration says at this point, even by labeling judges who disagree with him as "activists" and "arbitrary." I guess I was more angry about the attempt to shift focus again toward something where Bush can pander to the religious right, and about one more effort, as Sen. Russ Feingold called it, to write discrimination into our constitution.