Molly revels in Priscilla and irony

one of these days, i'm gonna hafta get around to compiling my list of heroes and heroines... every day, i'm reminded of another one i've forgotten to mention or post on lately... here's one of the best, the irrepressible molly ivins, waxing eloquent on priscilla owen and irony as only she can...

Right-wing Republicans fight to make the world safe from "judicial activists" by appointing Priscilla Owen -- the biggest, baddest, worstest judicial activist Texas ever produced -- to the federal bench.

Owen is so notorious for reading her own opinions into the law, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, then her colleague on the Texas Supreme Court, described her opinion in a parental consent case as "an unconscionable act of judicial activism." (For further irony, see Gonzales' subsequent attempts to deny that he was describing Owen.)

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