[Sir Gawain]

Stop bashing the president! Oh wait, this is from NR, the neocon flagship. Well....it looks like NR has become....just another Bush hater! Yeah, that's it! NR was never any good! NR bad! Bush good!

[Sabertooth]

p>I find your understatement to be highly suspicious. What's wrong with "Bush is Best?"

Anything short of "Bush is a Genius!" tickles my tinfoil. And no "beat the RATS!" What's up with that?

[Victoria Delsoul]

Excellent article. Thanks so much.

I totally agree with this:

Opposition to racial preferences and gay marriage is popular in every state of the Union. And if the courts are going to block social conservatives from ever achieving legislative victories - and Republicans will not even try to do anything about it - social conservatives may well conclude that there is no point to participating in normal politics.

To get back on track will require effort from President Bush, congressional Republicans, and conservatives generally. Bush ought to bear down on spending; we suggest that an assault on corporate welfare, followed by a reform of the appropriations process, would be a fine start. Republicans need a strategy for dealing with the judicial usurpation of politics that goes beyond trying to make good appointments to the bench — a strategy that now has a two-generation track record of nearly unrelieved failure. On gay marriage, a constitutional amendment appears to be necessary to forestall the mischief of state and federal courts. But a mere statute can make the point that Congress controls the federal judiciary's purview.