Posted on 12/30/2010 5:40:43 PM PST by The Looking Spoon
One of the dumbest liberal bloggers out there, Ezra Klein, thinks the constitution is confusing because it was written over 100 years ago. He also thinks the GOP's insistence that it be read for the first time ever in Congress is a "gimmick" I don't want to get all technical and use big words that might be too hard to understand for "progressives"...but.... WHAT!.
I postulated in a previous post that the left has some sort of intelligence allergy, and I'm sorry to see Ezra Klein once again can't prove me wrong.
Our government, and the Democratic Party especially, by their own cavalier, yet inadvertent admission (especially during the ObamaCare debate), has grown so big it has its own gravitational pull, and it strayed so far from the Constitution it could be its own planet.
The simple fact is the Constitution is perhaps the most plainly worded, easiest to understand governing document in the entire republic. Liberals like Klein
Klein might as well have said:
If it really is a mystery why the GOP thinks the Constitution needs to be read to people who vote 2000 page nation altering bills (that are apparently NOT difficult to understand) why don't we take a note from Nancy Pelosi (who, incidentally, was also created over 100 years ago) and say Congress has to read the Constitution so they can find out what is in it! So, Ezra, this is not a gimmick, you idiot. want NEED it to be "confusing" so they can justify breaking the rules while telling you they're not. All they care about is power, and the Constitution's limits on power couldn't be clearer if it was the inside of Biden's head. For them it's not a document our government needs to live by, it's an impediment.This is too confusing, here's a coloring book, leave the big kid stuff to us.
Is The Constitution Really Too Hard to Understand?
...Only if you’re a moron.
If Ezra Klein, founder of JournoList, is too ignorant to understand the Constitution, perhaps he should start a new listserv called ConList so he can get together with his journo faves and learn a little bit about our founding document.
Moron.
They don’t read the bills. The don’t understand even the simplest of laws.
That’s insanity to respect such people. It’s insanity to call laws passed by such people legit.
If they cant understand the Constitution especially when assisted with the Federalist papers. Then they never could comprehend the tax code or the health care bill to name a few challenges for the lib’s.
But they could understand the Constitution when Bush was president and the Patriot Act was the topic of discussion. Now that the GOP has the House, it suddenly became too difficult.
Liberals do suffer from mental illness and there is even a book out on that. I’ll just say in this case of the illness displaying itself as premeditated ignorance and practiced irrationality.
Alexander Hamilton explained how to read the Constitution in the Federalist Papers. The essence of our Constitution embodies positively allowed actions. Intentionally, the multitude of actions not allowed by each government branch remains unexpressed. Therefore, Hamilton in Federalist Paper 78 uses the term “manifest tenor” meaning clearly visible direction of thought, and in Federalist Paper 81 rejects a popularly acclaimed “spirit’ when explaining judgment. With his guidance it is not that difficult to figure out.
Boy oh boy...so true!
Liberals live in a post-modernist deconstructionist mental world where words and texts mean initially only what the reader or hearer deems them to mean, and ultimately where words have no meaning at all beyond expressing power relationships and such meanings, of course, change with the change of power relationships.
Yet, the Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) was written in 1848. Is it too EASY to understand?
Understanding the Constitution can be a daunting task when you have to reconcile that understanding with Liberal positions. The Constitution does not prohibit the people from electing Liberal or even Marxist representatives. However, those elected representatives’ powers of legislation are limited to the powers enumerated in the Constitution.
Many who oppose the Founder’s vision for America seek an out by claiming they don’t understand the so very clear and concise proper English grammar expressed in the Constitution. If one admits they do understand they cannot then suggest that it means other than what the words say.
Ask the person what portion of the Constitution he is having difficulty understanding and then offer to explain what the words means using the federalist and anti-federalist papers. Start with Article 1 Section 1 which explains that Congress’s legislative powers are constrained to the Powers herein granted.
Section. 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
A modicum of knowledge of American history and the Declaration of Independence goes a long way to understanding the Constitution.
When a person (most progressives) reject reality, he must recreate a separate reality suitable to his own beliefs/dreams/Utopian wishes in order to have some kind of existence. These self-created realities constantly conflict with actual reality causing this personal dissonance we normally refer to as abject stupidity.
As stated numerous times above, the Constitution is the very definition of precision and clarity. Middle schoolers are capable of understanding it.
I find it impossible that Klein would or could possibly look at the Constitution any other way. It would be impossible for the Constitution to mesh, in any way, with his psychedelic/dream state of a mushy mind.
He is the perfect example of artificial intelligence created by an idiot.
Thank God he doesn’t understand it; if he did we would all be doomed. He is a virus infecting humanity and cries out for the legalization of paleonatal abortion of all progressives.
The liberals understand it enough to turn its meaning completely opposite to what it really means.
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