Tom Delay: "I hate books."

Tom DeLay had comments to make on a Fox News Radio interview about "judicial activism" (you might know it as "Checks and balances"), and singled out Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Reagan appointee.

On Kennedy, DeLay had to say:

"We've got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based upon international law, not the Constitution of the United States. That's just outrageous.

"And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the Internet? That is just incredibly outrageous."

Stupid educated Justices, wanting to know more. Mark Twain had you pegged years ago:

"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read."

Senator Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, rebuts:

"Has the Internet become the devil's workshop? Is it some infernal machine now that needs to be avoided by all right-thinking Americans? What is Mr. DeLay trying to say, as he is stretching to lash out at judges who happen to disagree with his political point of view."

He's saying the Internet is the devil, silly.