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Brooks: Time to Torch the Constitution
Townhall.com ^ | December 16, 2013 | Shawn Mitchell

Posted on 12/16/2013 12:53:15 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/16/2013 12:53:15 PM PST by Kaslin
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who toil thanklessly to analyze the impact of lots of really good bills that somehow never get passed.

Define: really good bills

2 posted on 12/16/2013 12:56:42 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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The CONS disappeared utterly and completely a long time ago. The enumeration was the heart, soul, essence, and core of the CONS; once it was flushed down the toilet it was all over.


3 posted on 12/16/2013 12:56:58 PM PST by Doctor 2Brains
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To explain the drought’s cause, Brooks cites Fukayama’s essay in the current issue of The American Interest, The Decay of American Institutions, which diagnoses increased polarization, too many interest groups and lobbyists, and expansive power grabs by courts that foster too much litigation, all of which have combined to shrink the influence of the executive branch.

The fact that Brooks thinks we need a more powerful government/dictator shows once and for all his charade of being a 'conservative' is over.

4 posted on 12/16/2013 12:59:15 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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OK so we torc the Constitution —and what do we have? Oh, maybe a replacement like Mao’s little red book or Kaddafy’s little gree book might be nice. Maybe because we’e so inclusive it could be Barry’s Little Rainbow Reader —whatever, my head is spining.


5 posted on 12/16/2013 12:59:38 PM PST by brooklyn dave
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"That would be interesting, and pleasing to deep thinkers disappointed in Congress’s failure to pass a lot of awesome new laws."

Congress has passed sufficient awesome new laws, thank you very much. I have a better idea. Keep the constitution. Send Congress home. Please.
6 posted on 12/16/2013 1:01:02 PM PST by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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A couple of damn neocons.

Screw em.

7 posted on 12/16/2013 1:02:21 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: brooklyn dave

How about, shoot the lobbyists, make all political positions one and only one term and do not let any people cross between the media and government.

Seems like that will be better for all Americans.


8 posted on 12/16/2013 1:02:36 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("The GOP fights its own base with far more vigor than it employs in fighting the Dims.")
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Its a long held progressive desire to have a group of elites making the real decisions for the bewildered herd in this case Wilsonian propagandist Walter Lippmann.

Early on Lippmann said the "bewildered herd," his way of referring to the masses, must be governed by “a specialized class whose interests reach beyond the locality." This class is composed of experts, specialists and bureaucrats. The experts, who often are referred to as "elites," were to be a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the "omnicompetent citizen".
9 posted on 12/16/2013 1:02:37 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Yes, that’s what we need, a really nice and wise and most excellent dictator who can create a grand society we all want so badly. You know, like North Korea.


10 posted on 12/16/2013 1:04:45 PM PST by lurk
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Nah, let’s torch David Brooks’ trousers, with the perfectly creased pant leg, instead.


11 posted on 12/16/2013 1:06:52 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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Brooks sounds like a Freshmen Poli/Sci student writing an essay decrying Federalism because “they just can’t get anything done”.

Brooks is supposed to be smart?


12 posted on 12/16/2013 1:07:39 PM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept?)
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Torch the Constitution?

I would like to see him enter the National Archives and try it.

13 posted on 12/16/2013 1:10:05 PM PST by Slyfox (We want our pre-existing HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
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a constitutional democrat.

Isn’t that some kind of absurdity?
Constitutional AND a democrat???


14 posted on 12/16/2013 1:11:38 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Did you read the article? He wants a “strengthened executive,” even though we have the most powerful and unconstitutional executive in our history.


15 posted on 12/16/2013 1:13:34 PM PST by livius
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..... The term "Conservative" has been redefined by the collaborators with this administration. "Conservative" now means RINO/Moderate. What was once thought of and termed as "Conservative" is now called by the derogatory terms "Tea-bagger/Tea Party."
16 posted on 12/16/2013 1:13:46 PM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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Don't forget, this Bolshevik is the guy who shows up on panel discussions on PBS and NBC to present the conservative point of view.

That's how they move the needle on the center of the debate - have a man with the political views of Karl Marx pretend to be the conservative in the discussion

17 posted on 12/16/2013 1:14:53 PM PST by turducken
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Anybody who thinks they would be a benign dictator would end with bodies piled in ditches. There’s no such thing. That’s why we have co-equal branches. (Or, had before Obama.)


18 posted on 12/16/2013 1:19:07 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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“who toil thanklessly to analyze the impact of lots of really good bills that somehow never get passed.”

How does one ignore Obamacare! No one thanklessly toiled to read it but it somehow got passed just to see what was in it and it inflicted an incredible disaster that has pissed off over half the country! My question is a simple one, has the government and it’s media dupes gone nuts?


19 posted on 12/16/2013 1:22:35 PM PST by Rock N Jones
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This is the kind of freeloader crap you get when you stop teaching what it means to be an American in our schools. Bass turds like Brooks would do anything to get rid of the Second Amendment. Even torch the U.S. Constitution. Deport the bass turd to Pyong Yang.


20 posted on 12/16/2013 1:24:06 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all my fellow Americans. "Whatever" to everybody else!)
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