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Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Monday:

I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection, but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country... And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in, engage in violence."

Cornyn openly speculated whether authoritarian judges could provoke violence against their fellows.  It is possible that it could, but it clearly was not the case in the slayings of an Atlanta judge and the family of a Federal judge in Chicago.

But a thoughtful examination of some off-the-cuff comments is beyond most liberals.  To wit, from the Washington Post piece linked above:

Liberal activists criticized Cornyn's remarks, and compared them to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's comments last week following the death of a brain-damaged Florida woman, Terri Schiavo. DeLay (R-Tex.) rebuked federal and state judges who had ruled in the Schiavo case, saying, "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior."

Josh Trevino's post on the front page is definitive:

The broader lesson here is not that John Cornyn occasionally says unfortunate things. This much has been evident for some time; equally evident is that he's no threat to Constitutional governance, to say nothing of the idiot fantasies of him as a terror apologist. The true broader lesson lies in what we see here of the modern machinery of the Democratic grassroots: armed and proficient with the high-speed social feedback mechanisms of modern technology, it is fast; it is coalescing; it is on message; it is paranoid; and it is not very bright.

Bearing Josh's words pertinent and fruitful, the Nashua Advocate blog has demanded that Cornyn resign:

A sitting United States Senator must not excuse, condone, or seek to mitigate the assassination of members of the federal government of the United States.

And a sitting United States Senator must do nothing whatsoever to promote, encourage, or justify continued acts of terrorism upon, or the attempted assassinations of, members of the federal government of the United States.

A Republican Senator from the State of Texas has just done all three of these things--and thus, in the view of this news outlet [blog], has forfeited his job in the United States Senate.

Senator Cornyn has done nothing of the sort.  The left half of the blogsophere, as represented by dKos and others, react.  Operating in the minority, an unwarranted and paranoid desperation drives them to misdiagnose a scratch for a gaping wound, see the plasma-substitute in the water, and swarm.  To the neutral observer, it must look like a strange psychological experiment.  To the partisan observer like me, it seems the clowns have attained control of the circus.