Posted on 05/07/2013 1:21:33 PM PDT by jazusamo
>>Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: “I Stand Here as a Freed Slave”
I know. Pointing out her insane hypocrisy was the purpose of the last line of my post.
having a puppy makes you happy....is that a right?
The true meaning of the constitution for Democrats.
The stupid, it hurts.
IF health care and education “should be” Constitutional rights, then propose ammendments to the Constitution to make them explicitly Constitutional rights. If you don’t do this, you’re a coward and a fake and a traitor to the Constitution.
She doesn’t mean there is a right to health care and education. What she means is there is a right to have other people pay for her health care and education. There is a big difference. Otherwise, I should reasonably expect that others should buy me a variety of arms—it is unquestionably a Constitutional right.
You are correct...all of these programs amount to charity (which is a function of the church and thus ought to be completely separate from the federal government by even the most compassionate lefty’s ideology).
I don’t know whether to be appalled that Sheila is referencing language that is not in the Constitution... or impressed that she actually knows that much of the Declaration of Independence.
All your belongings and money for me, but not for thee....liberal marching orders...
>>>Well, OK. I’ll concede to that. But when I read the original post, I thought that was the point redpoll was trying to make. I had already picked up on it and was looking to see if others had...and they had not.
What say you, redpoll?<<<
Redpoll is hidden deep inside the maw of the education establishment somewhere in the vast wilderness of the 49th state, and, yes, I knew that Ms. Lee has no clue, and that the phrase was in the Declaration of Independence.
Maybe it’s an Alaskan thing, but there’s a lot of conservative teachers up here, at least in our community. We actually teach civics. I just asked my class (tallying superlative votes for the yearbook right now) about the source of the words “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” and most of them immediately said the Declaration of Independence. Some rolled their eyes about the stupidity of Sheila Jackson Lee after I told them about her comment.
A long time ago the Italian communist Gramscii said that the left should take have a stealth takeover of culture by going on a “long march through the institutions.” I’m taking a long march through THEIR institutions. We read Solzhenitsyn and Orwell. My companion in the language arts department has kids reading “Pilgrim’s Progress.” I can either give up hope or go down fighting. Admittedly this isn’t as glamorous as the battle some are making, but I’m inoculating my students against the left, one kid at a time.
And that woman went to Yale and UVA Law? Shows that one can receive an education, yet not be educated.
I hardly think that our founding fathers had handouts in mind.
Implied rights. I like that. How ‘bout the right to stuff a towel in her mouth? I think I can find that right implied somewhere in there.
later
Since when does having a right mean the government must provide it? WTH? There MUST be something in the water...
Mark
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