Friday, February 27, 2009
Shredding the Constitution Pelosi style
With the ridiculous granting of a vote to the District of Columbia's representative in the House, let us not hear any more about the Bushies "shredding the Constitution." If it is lawful to do this by statute, then why not just decide that Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam should each get a seat or two? Indeed, why stop there? Why not give Americans living in France their own seat? What about each Indian Tribe? In fact, what does geography have to do with it? I think we need to give each disadvantaged minority group their own seat, broken down by skin pigmentation, accent, quantity of vowels in last name, and type of mental and physical handicap. Oh, and each NFL city should have its own representative, and each college football team that gets screwed because we do not have a post-season playoff system in lieu of the BCS. And why not give General Motors and Chrysler their own actual vote, instead of making them grovel for the votes of others? And school teachers. Don't forget them.
Goddamn. What a bunch of clowns.
CWCID: Glenn Reynolds.
15 Comments:
By 
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Fri Feb 27, 10:22:00 AM:
We're is deep sh**. Pelosi et al are worse than Obama, and he's downright scary. The next four years will be a heckuva test for out social contract, and our country.
By , at
Fri Feb 27, 11:18:00 AM:
The shreading of the constitution began with KING WILLIAM THE FINK
By , at
Fri Feb 27, 12:44:00 PM:
Don't laugh about the proposals. The Hawaiian natives are close to becoming independent of the US in fact if not in theory.
Separate representation for the various Native American tribes is no doubt on their agenda.
The Blacks in Congress openly regard themselves as separate. Latinos may too, I haven't heard.
If you reward differences you get differences. It isn't that hard to understand.
The Whites who dominated the US gradually realized that and stopped rewarding themselves while penalizing others such as Blacks.
Now the Democrats are committed to fragmentation and we will get it.
By , at
Fri Feb 27, 12:50:00 PM:
The operative buzz word would be Balkanization. The model would be Yugoslavia before their break-up and civil war.
Can two Senate seats for DC be far behind?
Hiding out with lots of beer and guns in Ohio.
-David
By 
Viking Kaj, at
Fri Feb 27, 02:21:00 PM:
By Viking Kaj, at
Fri Feb 27, 02:21:00 PM:
By Viking Kaj, at
Fri Feb 27, 02:22:00 PM:
By Viking Kaj, at
Fri Feb 27, 02:24:00 PM:
The next thing you know the Portugese water dog will have a vote in Congress.
By , at
Fri Feb 27, 03:51:00 PM:
Well, well, well- are my brother&sister citizens NOW prepared to bestir they're double-wide posteriors and take an interest -beyond snarkey,vitriolic and clever "waggish" bon mots at the cocktail party-and rise up , take back the STEWARDSHIP of our dhimmocracy?...or will we cavil yet some more in our PC,crap-ladened discourse...n.b: even Clint Eastwood has had enough with PC groupthink and the languid poses of the celebrity wannabe society we seem to have evolved into.Read Eurohistory folks- is that where we all want to go? I did not emigrate to this wonderful nation to become part of an ahistorical,numbnut "movement" to feel good about telling the soulless(but my "equals",eh!) operators of the world's s*#tholes masquerading as nations...a wee bit o' voter dyspesia( or tax revolt) is called for, folks.NOW!
By , at
Fri Feb 27, 04:55:00 PM:
The lack of positive leadership is appalling. The Congressional Democratic "leaders" are drunk on their own power, think they have a mandate, surround themselves with people who tell them what they want to hear and, as a result, never doubt their own rhetoric for a moment. Haven't they learned a lesson from history -- even recent history?
You just can't make this stuff up.
Where is the mighty center? Let's rally those who don't like either party and have them speak out -- for dignity, for pragmatism and for politics that doesn't bash one group for the benefit of votes or another group. We're out there, and we vote, and the 2010 mid-term elections aren't that far off. By then, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid will have demonstrated their ineptitude on a national stage. Here's to hoping that they will suffer consequences at the ballot box. (Then again, the fact that Senator Dodd and Congressman Frank haven't been held accountable for the Fannie and Freddie messes suggests that the public could give the Democrats a pass in 2010).
The Centrist
By smitty1e, at
Fri Feb 27, 10:37:00 PM:
Why do you give that godforsaken piece of work (The Wrecker of the House) any ideas?
By , at
Sat Feb 28, 02:25:00 AM:
Liberal demacrats cant ever come to ever ecept the U.S CONSTITUTION as it was written they ether skip over it of ignore it why else did our newly elected dictator BRARAT OBAMA select a jerk like ERIC HOLDER as his imperial judge of imperial decision making they want crooks that will reject the constitution as they always do IMPEACH THEM ALL
By davod, at
Sat Feb 28, 05:44:00 AM:
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved the legislation 11 to 1.
McCain voted no and his no vote was wishy washy.
What about Collins, Coburn, Voinovich, Graham and Ensign.
The Constitution means nothing.
Its how you feel that counts, and I bet they got a nice warm feeling voting for the legislation.
By davod, at
Sat Feb 28, 06:23:00 AM:
Correction
You will have to forgive me for not reading all the Washington Post article VOTING RIGHTS Senate Committee Passes Bill Measure to Add House Seat Moves to Full Chamber
The second paragraph said this "The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved the legislation 11 to 1 at its first business meeting in the new Congress."
The sixth paragraph says "All nine Democrats at the meeting voted for the legislation; the committee's other Democrat, Sen. Daniel K. Akaka (Hawaii) voted in favor by proxy -- a symbolic way of signaling support. Two of the three Republicans present -- Susan Collins (Maine) and George V. Voinovich (Ohio) -- backed the bill. Three who were absent indicated their opposition in proxy votes: Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.)."
The article is misleading in that it discusses only those present but does not include the proxie votes.
By davod, at
Sat Feb 28, 06:45:00 PM:
Second Correction:
The Washington Post Reporter just e-mailed me to say that "Proxy votes are considered symbolic and not counted in the official total."
