[Aussie Dasher]

I half expect one of the Dems to burn the flag in the Chamber...

[Cinnamon]

These wimps need only to look at Patriot Rick Monday... now that's love for your country.

[combat_boots]

You beat me to it. I was just going to say, "open with what, burning a flag without a prayer?"

How perfect. Just in time for the 4th of July.

[MNJohnnie]

One, I can think about a dozen. Kennedy, Durbin, Kerry, Levin, Clinton, Boxer, Feingold, Harkin, Biden, Feinstein, Hagel, Jeffords

[Crooked Constituent]

I'm not sure about this guys. The way I see it, it's just one more thing I can't do. This isn't expansion of freedom.

If we get another Clinton type president, I may want to burn a flag in protest.

Republicans should be working on more important issues.

[azcap]

Flag Burning is hardly an issue that mobilizes the GOP base. Most Republicans support it and have for a long time but I don't know any that get fired up and charge the polls about it. The electoral advantage of the issue is not its effect on the GOP base but rather its effect on the Democrats base. Those few remaining, beer drinking, NASCAR watching, America loving Democrats will once again be shown how far their parties values are from their own.

[GregH]

I dont think this amendment would be necessary if not for those idiotic Supreme court decisions that said Flag burning equates to free speech which it is not.

I think this amendment should be clear and let individual states decide on this issue, it Flag burning needs to banned so be it.

[Paradox]

Ah yes, one of my Stupid Conservative tricks. This is so idiotic, I really hope I dont have to explain myself. I hate most flag burners, dont get me wrong, but it is assinine to "ban" it, except in as much as you can ban the burning of anything. This is really stupid...

[RichRepublican]

Another "REALLY IMPORTANT" issue. Oh boy.

[sgtbono2002]

You can always count on Arlen Sphincter to be on the wrong side of a debate. Thanks again Mr. bush.

[tflabo]

The Senate is a bunch of overbloated no guts no glory windbags. If they had any stones marriage would be protected in the Constitution first....a far greater and weightier issue than pieces of patriotic cloth.

[Waco]

You wanna see protecton of speech? Someone arrange to burn the UN flag daily in front of the Capitol. Eh?

[Rudder]

...another vote aimed at mobilizing the GOP's conservative base before November's midterm elections.

And, as such, it's a complete waste of time.

[SmoothTalker]

What a waste of time. We have real issues like spending and our borders and the party elites want to have a pointless debate on an unnecessary amendment. They really have a low opinion of the base if they think they can just wave something like this in front of us before every election and we'll just happily go to the booth like nice little lemmings. Its insulting how little they think of us and our intelligence.

A flag burning amendment is a stupid thing to debate. For one when was the last time you actually saw a flag being burned? Heck when was the last time you even hear about it in your town? I've never seen one burned. Not once. Never. And if a few get burned a year, so what? How is that a threat to our democracy? Part of what makes us a strong country is that we tolerate offensive expression and don't place lots of government imposed burdens on the behaviors of our system. This sounds like a measure out of communist China or Sadaam's old iraq. A pathetic ploy.

[DoctorMichael]

Wow!!!!!!! The Pubbie leadership is pure genius bringing this out again to mobilize the base! This is sure gonna make me forget about the illegals, the bloated pork-barrel budgets and dig deep into my wallet for a contribution.

[Gone GF]

I'm so relieved that the Senate is talking about stopping this horrible epidemic of flag burning going on in this country. If something isn't done soon, we'll have no flags left to fly.