I am greatly amused by the outrage President Obama generated the other day when he said he didn’t think the Supreme Court should overturn the health care reform law. You’d have thought he’d advocated holding them accountable for their decisions, or something.

Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, escalated his talk of a battle between the legislative and judicial branches of government on Thursday, saying federal courts had “run amok,” in large part because of the failure of Congress to confront them.

“Judicial independence does not equal judicial supremacy,” Mr. DeLay said in a videotaped speech delivered to a conservative conference in Washington entitled “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith.”

Mr. Delay went a little further the following month:

In Houston, his home district, DeLay said Congress “for many years has shirked its responsibility to hold the judiciary accountable. No longer.

“We will look at an arrogant, out of control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at the Congress and president when given jurisdiction to hear this case anew and look at all the facts … The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today.”

I know, I know. It’s Okay If You’re A Republican.