Look out judges - they're coming for you.

Last week, Tom DeLay made the following comment in reference to the Schiavo decisions, "This loss happened because our legal system did not protect the people who need protection most, and that will change...[t]he time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." Federal judges are appointed for life, so what is he referring to?
This week, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)in a speech given on the Senate floor, wondered "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 and builds to the point where some people engage in violence, certainly without any justification."
Remember that one judge (along with a court reporter) was murdered in his courtroom in Atlanta by a rapist, and another had her husband and mother murdered because she was forced by an appeals court to rule against an obviously deranged plaintiff.
Cronyn has since tried to back-pedal, clarifying that he did not mean the attacks on these judges were justified. But, what I got from his comments is not that the attacks were justified, just understandable.
This is all leading up to to an attempt to scrap the filibuster to ensure the confirmation of President Bush's most extremist judicial nominees.
If it sounds like intimidation, looks like intimidation, smells like intimidation...