House Republicans will read the Constitution today, out loud, on the floor of the House of Representatives. I’m guessing this is how some politicians will react. More accurately, this is how they would react if the Supreme Court actually upheld the Founding Fathers’ vision of the Constitution.
I think I see Henry Waxman and Barney Frank in this video.
I’ll resist the temptation to say who is represented by the person in this video.
To be fair, most Republicans would be equally horrified if the Constitution was properly interpreted. After all, the Founding Fathers are probably still rolling in their graves at what GOPers did when they were last in power. The no-bureaucrat-left-behind education bill, the corrupt farm bills, the Medicare prescription drug entitlement, the pork-filled transportation bills, Sarbanes-Oxley, the TARP bailout, etc, etc.
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I think I do see some resemblance. LOL. But realistically, reading the constitution out loud to these people is like reading it to a tree with a smiley face carved in it. They seem to have their own interpretation of the English language. Perhaps reading the Merriam-Webster dictionary would be more beneficial.
Hi Dan,
I think conservatives are a problem, also. They point to RINOs in government as supporters of big government, but conservatives supported several big government initiatives including some of the ones you listed.
They support military spending up the wazhoo. Going back to before Bush II, conservatives supported HMO regulations. And speaking of healthcare, they ignored it for decades and handed it to Dems. Now that we have gov’t-run HC, conservatives see the problems with it.
Bottom line: do not blame Republicans only. Conservatives share the blame.
It bugs me that any of them would have a problem with this. It’s like complaining about having to watch an employee training video when you’re going to work at McDonald’s. Speaking of which, aren’t these clowns the root cause of all the boring sexual harassment, and limp-wrist sensitivity classes everyone in the nation has to repeatedly endure? They can cry me a river.
I was reading a story today about one of the latest smoking bans and others waiting in the wings and it made me think of how politicians are always talking about things in terms of banning them. Maybe if someone pointed out that the Constitution “bans” THEM from doing things and making certain laws, you’d be speaking their language. Because by their thinking as soon as you ban something people will just not do it, or deserve punishment if they do.
And yeah it’s obviously a shameless appeal to the Liberty movement to read the Constitution – probably no more sincere than Bart Simpson writing, “I will not waste chalk” on the blackboard a hundred times, but at the end of the day it sure as hell couldn’t hurt.