Future Foreshadowing
January 7, 2011 at 9:47 am | 1 Comment »
Future as in the next two years. The Republicans took over the majority of the House this week and immediately started their pointless grand standing. Not that reading the US Constitution is without point. On the contrary, my issue is, as usual, with the way they did it. All for the cameras and the 30 second news blurbs. Typical for any religious zealots, they left out the parts they don’t like anymore. Can’t risk references to slavery slipping into the 24-hour news cycle. Worse, the caucus demonstrated the futility of this exercise by not noticing when two articles were skipped and running for the exits before the reading was finished. Even new Speaker Boehner essentially said the exercise was pointless when he held his weekly news conference while the reading was still in progress. Blowhards. Posers. Hypocrites. Buffoons. Should be a fun 24 months.
Yeah…I was pretty appalled. Like you, I actually don’t mind the reading of the Constitution (as I wouldn’t be surprised some in the House hadn’t read it since High School, if ever). BUT, that they left parts out that were not politically correct thinking on our Founding Father’s part is BS. Because by doing so, they don’t pay heedance to the fact it EVOLVES over time. And that they didn’t even MISS Article IV until hours later – COME ON!
This is almost as stupid as the new version of Huck Finn…
IDIOTS