Posted on 01/05/2011 9:16:05 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan
To Democrats, the Constitution is like a crucifix to vampires. This is gonna be fun.
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Constitution Derangement Syndrome?
They mock because they don’t understand.
To be honest, I am stunned that even Dims are getting offended at reading the constitution on the House floor. It’s worse than even I thought....
Exactly.
Exhibit A - Ezra Klein: The Constitution is old and confusing and has no binding power on anything.
Immediately after 9/11/2001 when tens of millions of Americans proudly showed the Flag I recall liberal / progressive Americans rejecting the Flag because it was "too Republican."
The 1960s Marxist-Alinsky campus/street revolutionary rabble and their ideological issue (children)-cum-Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) DO IN FACT reject our Constitution, Flag, and everything about America because they feeeeeeeeeeeel it is all "too Republican."
They are some sick puppies.
It’s like living in Bizzaro World.
Nancy Pelosi: “Defict reduction is our mantra.”
In any case, it is a presumptuous and self-righteous act, suggesting that they alone understand the true meaning of a text that the founders wisely left open to generations of reinterpretation. Certainly the Republican leadership is not trying to suggest that African-Americans still be counted as three-fifths of a person.
It is presumptuous and self-righteous to assume the true meaning of the text is subject to generations of reinterpretation, because it is antiquated and confusing. Human pride, not scholarship, sponsors inordinate confidence in social, economic, and political philosophies mandating the Constitution be resurrected from a supposed decaying existence. People should find such revelations unacceptable; unacceptable because the tradeoff is always human freedom.
Alexander Hamilton explained how to read the Constitution in the Federalist Papers, and following his guidance one easily understands the death of slavery was proclaimed. 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, which accommodates tortured, backwards engineered homilies needed for grievous schemes. A deformed logic was needed to separate states rights from the overarching principle of human freedom. With Hamiltons guidance, a document hedged in by a Preamble exalting human freedom, and a Bill of Rights demanding human freedom becomes timeless and grinds slavery into dust.
Yeah. By their reaction, you'd think someone was going to read the Bible aloud, or something. /sarc
“I am stunned that even Dims are getting offended at reading the constitution on the House floor. Its worse than even I thought....”
Me, too - I was shocked. Particularly nasty were the comments by Jerrold Nadler, NY congressman, made shortly after the announcement. Yes, we’ve got more trouble to deal with than I’d realized, when so many who profess to value the Constitution (even those who just swore - again - to uphold it first and foremost) evidently feel free now to mock it in hateful ways.
“Ezra Klein: The Constitution is old and confusing...”
It’s short, basic and simply (but beautifully) written. Now, 2000 page bills, that’s another story.
“...and has no binding power on anything.”
That’s what he and his ilk hope, but the majority of us have spoken (and will continue to speak!) to the contrary.
I disagree.
They mock because the do understand, and they fear.
You want to hear fundamentalism? Tell a liberal that the 14th Amendment doesn't endorse abortion or automatic birthright citizenship.
I’ve come to find that, generally speaking, there are two types of liberals: the far, extreme left who know exactly what they’re working toward and the rest who are uninformed, misinformed, or just plain ignorant.
The former mock because they understand perfectly. The latter mock because they haven’t a clue.
JMO
Democrats these days are like spoiled toddlers, easy to goad into a tantrum. Since they control the levers of the pop culture, they heap disdain and snarky ridicule on whatever upsets them. Watch their heads explode when you bring up:
Sarah Palin, Sheriff Arpaio, Reagan, Jesus Christ, Right to bear arms, Tea Party, Constitution, securing the border, Fannie and Freddie, the failed war on poverty, affirmative action ... and the list of nuclear topics grows with each year.
When they screech the loudest, that’s when you know you’ve hit an evil nerve.
“hit an evil nerve.”
I love it!
That's absolutely true.
I was referring specifically to the NYT editorial writers. They know. They're not fools, just evil.
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