That Whacky Santorum

On the Sunday show This Week, Sen.Rick Santorum (R-PA, known in liberal circles as "man on dog" Santorum for his association of homosexuality with bestiality) made the following comment.

"Should we look at situations where judges have decided to go off on their own tangent and disobey the statutes of the United States of America? I think that's a legitimate area for oversight, sure." (WaPo)

The irony here is that there is no explicit authority in the Constitution for the Congress to exercise oversight of either the executive or judiciary branches of government. Their oversight authority was explicity assigned by, who else, the Supreme Courrt. But that oversight is limited to the executive branch - the administration and federal agencies.

Santorum wants to take that Congressional oversight a few steps forward and grant Congress the right and duty to impeach judges. Not all judges, mind you, but just the ones whose legal decisions don't square with Santorum's religious conclusions. They don't have that right.

The further irony is that this Republican Congress has been the target of well-deserved criticism for not exercising the oversight authority it has, particularly in the run up to and the conduct of the war in Iraq - most particularly the administration's use of intelligence to justify it.

Congress ought to exercise the oversight it's supposed to exercise before looking for more.

Comments

[tas]

I thought that, as far as "oversight" goes (though I don't think that's the proper term for it because) Congress has limited oversight on the executive and judicial branches because they can impeach and censure a president or justice. The House can pass an impeachment, and the the Senate would hold a trial for that who has been impeached, and a 2/3 majority would be needed in the Senate to censure them out of office.

I believe that's how it works... So, if the dog f*cker wants to have judges impeached, fine. Let him. The House can impeach all the judges they want, but they'll never be kicked out of office because Democrats in the Senate wouldn't go along with it.

Personally, I'm hoping that the House Republicans follow Santorums advice and start impeaching justices, because then maybe the citizens of this nation will finally wake up the fact of just how insane these Republicans are.

[wanda]

Don't let the idea that "they don't have that right" lull you into a false sense of security. That's never stopped them before.
The weepugs need to pay more attention to those within their OWN party who are crossing the line ("go off on their own tangent and disobey the statutes of the United States of America").
Is it only me who finds it amusing that most of the judges these guys have a problem with are judges appointed by their (again) OWN party?
If they (weepugs) weren't so drunk with political capital /power , this would be laughable.

[fondled]

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