] The framers, of course, believed in the absolute
] necessity of limiting power and pitting power against
] power so that no entity could get overweening power. Yet
] Congress is now attempting, with the Act, to deprive the
] federal courts of jurisdiction to check Congress's
] wayward ways -- in an arena where Congress was
] specifically believed by the framers to be dangerous.
] (Recall that phrase from the First Amendment's
] Establishment Clause, "Congress shall make no law.....)
]
] Do the members of Congress genuinely think that 50 state
] supreme courts -- with a host of disparate views -- could
] possibly keep Congress in check? Or do they perhaps,
] believe that as members of Congress, they need no check?
] My money is on the latter, but either way, they are very
] wrong.

Sigh...

CNN.com - Lunacy of Pledge Protection Act - Sep 23, 2004