Pelsoi: "So this is almost as if God has spoken."

This confirms something I have said before, that is, the Democrats have staked their game for rule and relevance in the anti-democratic rulings of the courts . Court rulings, specifically, Supreme Court rulings have the weight of sacred decrees for liberals. If you doubt it, check out what Nancy Pelsoi has said about all the high court's rulings generally and the Kelo vs. City of New London specifcally.

Q Could you talk about this decision [Kelo etc.]? What you think of it?

Ms. Pelosi. It is a decision of the Supreme Court. If Congress wants to change it, it will require legislation of a level of a constitutional amendment. So this is almost as if God has spoken. It's an elementary discussion now. They have made the decision.

Courtesy Ramesh Ponnuru at The Corner (emphasis added).

Actually, rereading my post linked above is spot on. In talking about the Schiavo case and Judge Greer's ruling, I quoted Jonathan Last's reference to Lincoln who said of Douglas: he takes a judge's ruling (Dred Scot decision) as a "Thus saith the LORD." Without reason or justification, liberals (like Douglas) take a human construct and give it divine sanction and weight. They have set aside not only conscience but even a standard and the desire to be able to judge something as wrong or right--even fear that the people or the people's representatives would vote on the issue.

Here is Lincoln's extended comments on Douglas:

This man [Douglas] sticks to a decision which forbids the people of a Territory from excluding slavery, and he does so not because he says it is right in itself,--he does not give any opinion on that,--but because it has been decided by the court; and being decided by the court, he is, and you are, bound to take it in your political action as law, not that he judges at all of its merits, but because a decision of the court is to him a "Thus saith the Lord." He places it on that ground alone; and you will bear in mind that thus committing himself unreservedly to this decision, commits him to the next one just as firmly as to this. He did not commit himself on account of the merit or demerit of the decision, but it is a "Thus saith the Lord." The next decision, as much as this, will be a "Thus saith the Lord." There is nothing that can divert or turn him away from this decision.