[newgeezer]

BTW, Barr talks a great game, but in effect he is advocating the overthrow of the very organization that he belongs to. The fact that he hasn't resigned yet tends to lend some "legitimacy" to this movement to restrict our rights.

So, you think he and others would be more effective fighting the erosion of the Constitution from outside the Capitol?

Yeah, right. Any and every member of Congress who has an issue with the status quo should resign, "boycott" the Congress. That would fix the problems. </sarcasm>

[Alberta's Child]

My point was that Barr's comments are a direct attack on the integrity of an institution that he himself belongs to. The risk he runs is that people will stop taking Congress (and, by extension, he himself) seriously as a legitimate governing body.

If you look at the development of historical events in Eastern Europe, you'll notice that very few of those governments were reformed from within. For the most part, they rotted from the inside and were toppled from the outside.