The most dangerous man in U.S.

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http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/21/Columns/The_most_dangerous_ma.shtml

By MARTIN DYCKMAN, St. Petersburg Times
Published August 21, 2005

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Tom DeLay's performance during last week's "Justice Sunday" should have dispelled anyone's doubt that he's the most dangerous man in America. I refer to his appalling statements that the Supreme Court lacks the power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional and that this is a "fact, understood by every high school civics student . . ."

As an answer to a question, that would flunk any candidate for naturalization. But this guy is House Republican leader, for goodness' sake.

What makes him dangerous is the well-settled fact that ideological tyrants, whether secular or religious, have in common an inability to coexist with an independent judiciary. The framers of the Constitution had that in mind when they carefully prescribed the powers of the president and the Congress but only loosely delineated those of the court.

They did leave a potentially dangerous loophole for Congress to restrict the court's jurisdiction - that is, the kind of cases it could hear - but for more than two centuries Congress has been wise enough not to abuse it. Hearing DeLay, it's time to worry.

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[rodeodance]

1. "Hearing DeLay, it's time to worry".--It is way way past time to worry!!

[flordehinojos]

2. delay by himself would pose no danger...it is the TNT COCKROACH living in

the white house that makes delay, and his ideas, explosive!