In The New York Times is a column expressing the progressive dream – scrapping the constitution entirely. Oh sure, we could keep the parts we like, even though in theory this would mean those holding power have absolutely nothing requiring them to leave those parts in. But hey, we might as well just toss that old archaic piece of paper out because so many politicians have violated it.
AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.
Consider, for example, the assertion by the Senate minority leader last week that the House could not take up a plan by Senate Democrats to extend tax cuts on households making $250,000 or less because the Constitution requires that revenue measures originate in the lower chamber. Why should anyone care? Why should a lame-duck House, 27 members of which were defeated for re-election, have a stranglehold on our economy? Why does a grotesquely malapportioned Senate get to decide the nation’s fate?
Our obsession with the Constitution has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system, kept us from debating the merits of divisive issues and inflamed our public discourse. Instead of arguing about what is to be done, we argue about what James Madison might have wanted done 225 years ago.
As someone who has taught constitutional law for almost 40 years, I am ashamed it took me so long to see how bizarre all this is.
Read the whole thing, if only to be tuned into how the left thinks. Obviously, it hasn’t dawned on the writer of this piece that if all of the politicians had followed the constitution we wouldn’t be saddled with such a dysfunctional political system. Oh, and the author is a constitutional law professor at Georgetown. Just think what he’s teaching his students.
Be sure to see Instapundit’s response to this garbage.
And ironically, it’s the Constitution that protects and makes possible idiots like this professor. And YAH, he IS an idiot. Believe me, I’ve seen college transcripts of people like this…’educated’ at Ivy League schools. They are often middling students at best, and they have to google words that are part of my usual vocabulary. So, not impressed. That they can’t think beyond the message of the Left and understand what chaos and tragedy would come from their dreams and plans just underscores how ill educated they are. I suppose some day there will be a fairy tale that begins “Once upon a time, there was a country called America….” I am just shocked that its demise is happening in my lifetime. I really thought we had a few more good decades.
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You can kiss America, as you once knew it, goodbye. The Media is totally corrupt and thus Low Information Voters are controlled like sheep.
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What do you expect out of Pravda West? They probably are being subsidized by the Chinese since their circulation is in the toilet. Unfortunately, many of our so-called Republicans in DC follow the Times and the Wash. Post and worry about what they say. To hell with what they say, listen to your flyover public, Congress. Stand for something other than your own reelection.
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[...] because it gets in the way of far left Progressive ideals, also known as fascism (via The Lonely Conservative) (NY times) AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the [...]
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you got that right. I was looking at one of their blogs. I don’t want to call out this particular guy, but wow do they imbibe the commie religion, and ignore common sense and basic facts. This dude was blabbering about lobbying by the NRA and thats the only reason guns haven’t been banned. Another was saying they have money because of some weird aspect of washington beltway stuff. Right, uh huh – it has nothing to do with 4 million members, most clamoring for a defense of the Second Amendment. It is like those caught up in psychobabble. They construct their own little liberal bubble, with their own language. This morning NPR had all sorts of anti-bully stuff, like they all get their talking points in line, and saturating the air waves. Everybody has to twist themselves into a pretzel to accomodate their priorities.
I have a simple question for the gun ban types: What if americans got disgusted with the violence in the 1920s and banned guns. How do you think things would have developed ? In their fantasy world it would be like england or australia and things woiuld be just fine. Ah but in 1929 there was a crash and a world wide depression. duPont tried to overthrow FDR, and soon commies were infiltrating the federal government. The fact is – the rest of the world does not stop while they have their attention focussed on banning guns. With our constitution, the wackos can go only so far before americans say enuf is enuf, and are taken seriously because we can escalate out the wazoo and don’t take no for an answer, and we pay attention to what is going on. ( unlike the nitwits who would vote for Mussolini. )
The idiots do not see the creation of power vacuums. In fact they don’t care because a lot of them are just left wing revolutionary types who worship Lenin. They love being ‘subversives’ . Now they think it is a respected profession ! They treat Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore like Nobel Prize winners. The big philosophical difference being that america is a product of the Reformation, and not the product of the French Revolution, where the Jacobins wanted to exterminate half the population.
If there is a culture war, then we should be converting them, rather than them converting us. These twits post comments like ‘i have a right to live’ … well duh. The problem is that the dude who used gasoline and two matches to set the Happy Land Social Club on fire, burning 87 people alive, was not so concerned about your ‘right to live’, and anyone who watches TV or listens to radio is perfectly aware of such things, so how can they be so inane ? Yet they have their little bubble anyway. They make comments as if reality does not exist. These are the kind of people who permit dictators to come to power – and thus are dangerous. One blogger said ” I don’t want to hear about Hitler’s Germany.” Ok dufus – hear about Lenin’s Russia. It took less than a thousand Bolsheviks to overthrow Kerensky and create a police state which murdered 50 million and made everybody miserable for 4 or 5 or 6 generations and still is a mess. Why should these jerks even be allowed in this country ?
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This is why progressives are moving to make higher education funding single payer. This author is exactly the kind of university faculty and thought that’s encouraged and protected by anti-Americans like Bill Ayers and Barack Obama. And I do believe Sandra Fluke attended…Georgetown. Go figure.
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[...] NYT Column: Scrap The Constitution [...]
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[...] The Lonely Conservative: NYT Column: Scrap The Constitution [...]
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@lonelycon Scrap the NYT Column!
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@lonelycon @NYTimes scrap the hypocritical, jewelry & fur advertising, millionaire hating NY Times!
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There is not God but Liberalism; and Obama is his profit, shall be the whole of the law.
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