first there were activists judges, and then nervous nelly senators, so we'll have to take matters in our own hands ...

Lessons in democracy by Tom DeLay as outlined in this news article from the DC legislative newspaper, The Hill (via Josh Marshall).

Realizing that a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage faces little chance of passing soon, if ever, House Republicans yesterday discussed alternative approaches, including stripping federal courts of jurisdiction over the issue, passing a federal law to define marriage and using the appropriations process to ban gay marriage in Washington.