EUGENE VOLOKH BLOGS A BIZARRE QUOTE FROM DICK GEPHARDT about overturning the Supreme Court via Executive Order. I saw the Fox story that Eugene links and decided -- as he suspects -- that it had to be a misquote. But CNN has it, too. Here it is:
When I'm president, we'll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day.
I agree with Eugene that if Gephardt meant this as written he has no business running for President -- but I still find it hard to believe that Gephardt would say something so dumb.
UPDATE: Eugene now has a link to the C-SPAN video and at about 45:40 Gephardt says exactly what's quoted up above, and the context is exactly as represented. Sheesh. That's absolutely pathetic. Either (1) Gephardt, despite all his years in Congress, has still failed to learn that you can't overturn a Constitutional decision by the Supreme Court with an executive order; or (2) Gephardt was in Full Pander Mode and hoped his audience wouldn't know better. Neither speaks very well for him.
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at June 23, 2003 04:53 PM
http://www.instapundit.com/archives/010248.php
I heard him say it on Fox News myself this morning. It just had to have a thread and anyone dumb enough to think they can simply overrule the Supreme Court by a stroke of the pen deserves to be riduculed to the extreme.
Gephardt's comments should be on every breaking news outlet around, but as far as I know, it has only made Fox and Free Republic. I hope to be corrected on this as the day goes on.
"You can't make it without our help!"
How can any self-respecting black people lap that up?
And if the black Demo voters are just "using" the pandering fools in the Democrat party to take easy roads to success, that is as unfair as racism is.
What's with this we stuff? Is he dreaming of a co-presidency with Hillary!