Just Ugly

In today's Washington Post, Dana Milbank pens a piece on the "Remedies to Judicial Tyranny" conference held in DC yesterday and attended by a host of mainline conservatives. The article is just one ugly quote after another, and you should read the whole thing. But here's a taste:

Not to be outdone, lawyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, "upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law."

Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said.

The full Stalin quote, for those who don't recognize it, is "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem."

There is no shame left in the conservative movement. This conference clearly exemplifies what has been evident for years — for all the talk of principle, contemporary conservatism stands for nothing but the power to enrich itself and punish its political enemies.