No Wonder Conservatives Hate Judges

Because one of them (U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor) has just pulled the plug on the U.S. National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping program, claiming that it "violates the rights to free speech and privacy".

Reaction from the RightWing Blogosphere has been swift, with RedState asking "who says democracy can’t be a suicide pact?" Special note is made by several commentators of Diggs Taylor's appointment to the bench in 1979 by Jimmy Carter, with one wag commenting that she was "One of Carter's last actions to destroy this country before he was booted from office."

Poor Babies! Better launch a pre-emptive war somewhere! Mexico is pretty close by! To save money, you can send the troops in by GreyHound.