Demagogue

In his Slate.com Has Been column, the DLC's Bruce Reed notes that conservative commentator Fred Barnes has hinted at a classic divide-and-conquer issue that the GOP plans to unveil this fall to fight off Democratic gains in the House and Senate:

(In a recent article,) Barnes does reveal one new idea on House Republicans' agenda: "legislation to bar all federal courts except the Supreme Court from ruling on the constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance."

Conservatives don't like judges legislating from the bench, so Republicans will do the opposite: benching from the legislature. Now that they have a reliable majority on the Supreme Court, Republicans want to send the rest of the judiciary home.