The abomination of desolation

Daniel Henninger:

For Democrats, judicial philosophy is a cultural Armageddon. Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy have turned the Senate into a Branch Davidian compound.

The piece explains that such radical reactions are the result of years of liberal control of the Congress and the media, during which they became convinced that they had a natural right to run things, and treated conservatives just as dismissively as conservatives now want to treat them. They view the prospect of Bush-appointed justices as the sliding of the east and west coasts into the ocean. The Republicans view it as a restoration of the proper role of the courts.