Open season on judges?

First Tom DeLay issued a threat that judges could expect retribution for "misguided" opinions (and see this post for why his mild threat matters):

The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today.

Then (unknown-to-me) Rep. Steve King threatened to squelch the judiciary via the legislature:

Congress created all of the courts; all the federal courts, Congress grants them jurisdiction. So whatever Congress gives, they can take away. If we wanted to abolish the 9th Circuit, for example, we could do that.

And now crazyman Senator John Cornyn provides a justification for why "some people" might feel the need to use violence against the judiciary in response to certain decisions:

Certainly nothing new, but we seem to have run through a spate of courthouse violence recently that’s been on the news and I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters on some occasions where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in - engage in violence.

Good grief.

For what it's worth, some cooler heads are distancing themselves from this incitatory rhetoric. But I'm not sure that those are the guys that the real nutcases listen to . . .