Poor Dr. Howard Dean is going to be working overtime in the emergency room as they haul in wave after wave of House Democrats with their eyes bugged completely out, tongues swollen, hyperventilating and choking on their own rage spittle. Worse yet the good Dr. will also have to treat droves of inside the beltway mainstream media newsreaders and progressive “opinion” journalists and commentators for the same or similar conditions.
An article in the Washington Post claims outgoing chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights and civil liberties, Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) has “… studied and memorized the Constitution with talmudic intensity.” [[1]] According to this Talmudic scholar of the Constitution, Speaker Boehner’s intent to have the Constitution read aloud on the floor of the House is “ritualistic”, “total nonsense” and “propaganda” and an attempt by Republicans to claim the document for themselves (not sure what that last part about claiming a document means). Whoa there big fella. Get a grip.
Here’s some nonsense for you.
Nonsense would be Nancy Pelosi claiming that for Democrats in the 110th and 111th Congresses deficit reduction had been a priority and a mantra for them; Jan ’07 deficit $8.7 trillion and Dec ’10 deficit $13.8 trillion (those are trillions with freakn’ Ts!!).
At her final press conference as House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, “Deficit reduction has been a high priority for us. It is our mantra, pay-as-you-go.” [[2]]
Nonsense – you have to pass a bill to find out what’s in it?
Nonsense would be Rep John Conyers (D-MI) House Judiciary Chairman citing the “good and welfare” clause as one of at least three clauses in the Constitution that grant the federal government authority to mandate the purchase of health care insurance. [[3]]
Nonsense would be continuing to claim there is a separation of church and state clause in the Constitution. Neither the word “church” nor state even appear anywhere in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights (“religion” only appears once and that is in the 1st amendment – the word “states” appears but only in reference to the states of the U.S. not state as in a federal government or a monarchy. See About the Constitution and that separation of church and state business [[4]]
Nonsense would be Ed Schultz and his rant that Republicans are bastards that want to destroy the American dream.
I will fight these bastards every night at 6 o’clock because I know what they’re up against. I know what they want to do. They want to take down American workers. They want to outsource jobs. They want to destroy the American dream. Concentrate the wealth to the top, and control minorities. That’s what they’re about. [[5]]
News flash for Ed – nobody’s watching you at 6 PM on MSNBC. Well, maybe not nobody but not very many bodies. See the ratings in the 6 PM slot in this post [[6]]. It’s a tight race between Ed Schultz and Chris Matthews to see which one can get his butt kicked the hardest by Fox News in the cable news ratings.
Nonsense would be the ridiculous assertion that Tea Partiers regard the Constitution as the “equivalent of sacred scripture” [[7]] and the related lame stream media Kool-Aid slurping attempts to paint Tea Partiers and Constitutional conservatives as the “religious right” or fringe cakes that will go away soon… wishful thinking. Taking a historian’s statement about the Founding Fathers out of context in a feeble attempt to paint the Founders as seriously flawed and therefore the Constitution as a flawed product is as nonsensical as pointing to an obscure article in a 1797 treaty with a bunch of Islamo terrorists (Barbary pirates) as the source of the mythical wall of separation between church and state. [[8]] Hinging arguments on articles in obscure treaties (like one that was dropped when the treaty was amended ten years later) and taking statements out of context versus consideration of the considerable body of work bequeathed to us by the Founders (letters, articles, meeting notes, books, etc) is about as desperate and nonsensical as it gets.
That you aren’t supposed to worship the Constitution but you are supposed to “… govern your government by it…” is something Constitutional conservatives can certainly agree with Rep. Nadler about. As Mark Fitzgibbons at the American Thinker so aptly put it recently, “The Constitution is the law that governs government. The vision begins with government abiding by the text of the Constitution.”[[9]] Where we Constitutional conservatives differ on this with Rep Nadler and his colleagues is their nonsensical assertions that they are abiding by the text of the Constitution when they are clearly clueless as to what that text is. Come now, how do “good and welfare” and mythical separation of church and state clauses or pass the bill to find out what it says constitute a remote understanding of the text much less abiding by it?
Ritualistic? How is reading the Constitution any more ritualistic than a reading of Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream speech or reading aloud the names of those who died in the World Trade Center or the Pentagon on 9/11? Seriously, would anyone other than someone in a Kool-Aid induced stupor be buying this stuff the lame stream media and some angry, foaming at the mouth, Democrats are selling?
Of course the good Dr. “the scream” Dean has a few spittle slinging, eyes bugging out issues to deal with as well. You would think a really, really white guy like Dr. Dean that went to private schools on his Wall Street executive daddy’s dime and grew up hanging around a country club would figure out that he has a little bit of a credibility issue with folks out here in flyover country when he says things like:
“I think it’s the last gasp of the 55-year-old generation,”
“The economy, and the uncertainty of the economy fuels [the Tea Party movement], but this is the last gasp of a generation that has trouble with diversity.” [[10]]
They might want to see if there is a Dr. in the house that can treat the good Dr. himself for a serious case of nonsense. The Tea Party movement is a shout out at politicians to “read the bill”, “read the Constitution”, “understand the Constitution”, “acknowledge that the Constitution is the law that governs government” and “abide by the Constitution”. The Tea Party movement is not just a bunch of frustrated old white guys. Check it out, you’ll find that it’s not just a bunch of worn out old selfish Baby Boomers. There are quite a few Gen X’rs and Gen Y’rs that have figured out that a bunch of guilt ridden do gooder tired old white guy sons of the Great Society progressives have ripped them off and they are not happy about it.
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End Notes
[1] Reading between the Constitution’s lines – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/04/AR2011010405252.html
[2] Pelosi final press conference remarks – http://nation.foxnews.com/nancy-pelosi/2011/01/04/speaker-pelosi-leaves-whopper
[3] Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0VYOa2BRbg&feature=player_embedded cited in article Leadership and politicians; don’t confuse the person with the position at http://www.ourfounderscompass.com/archives/1063
[4] About the Constitution and that separation of church and state business http://www.ourfounderscompass.com/archives/1499
[5] Ed Show, January 5, 2011 http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/05/ed-schultz-republicans-are-bastards-wanting-destroy-american-dream
[6] Oddball with Chris Matthews; Chilean miner discussion as lead in for Tea Party bashing – http://www.ourfounderscompass.com/archives/1465
[7] What a GOP Congress might bring http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/02/AR2011010202380.html
[8] About the Constitution and that separation of church and state business http://www.ourfounderscompass.com/archives/1499
[9] Mark Fitzgibbons’ brilliantly put statement as to the Constitution being the law that governs government appeared first in his post Another Yale dunce at The New York Times, Dec 02, 2010 (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/12/another_yale_dunce_at_the_new.html) and referenced in his most excellent article Why Constitutional Conservatism Is Ascending, December 12, 2010 (http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/why_constitutional_conservatis.html). Both are good reads and well worth the few minutes required to do so.
[10] The Tea Party is almost entirely over 55 and white. Howard Dean on Tea Party: ‘Last Gasp of the 55- Year-Old Generation’ at The Weekly Standard, January 5, 2011 – http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/dean-tea-party-last-gasp-old-generation_526734.html
