A floundering flailing girl-fight

This is what I picture when I think about the GOP. It's like they're desperate to get something to stick going into November, as long as it doesn't have anything to do with any real issue facing the nation. They're the party in power, they're the ones who are supposed to be getting things done, they're the ones constantly reminding us that "We're at War," and they're spending their time one this American Values drivel. Now we get an attempt to bar Judges from ruling on the legality of "Under God" in the Pledge. This is because a line that was added to the pledge in 1952 is apparantly needed to "defend America's founding principles." I guess if 1952 was when the nation was founded, and a purely political move to demonstrate how we're not like communist athiest USSR means anything, sure. But I'm just curious, what about the founding principles of the "three branches of government" and "checks and balances?"

We're at a time when Afganistan is deteriorating, and attacks in Iraq are on a dramatic increase ("Last throes" anyone?), Iran is gone completey antagonistic and is going nuclear, nuclear N. Korea is launching missiles, Japan is making noises about bombing N. Korea and altering it's constitution to allow a military (China will love that), Israel is moving towards all-out war and this is what the House GOP is spending it's time on? Seriously?

Again, everyone complains about "legislating from the bench," but I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the real danger is "judiciating from the chamber."