Tuesday, August 10, 2010

having it both ways

So the teabaggers keep saying they just want to 'return to the Constitution'. I even saw a bumper-sticker the other day, that said 'I vote the Constitution.'

I assume that's a euphemism for 'Obama is not the President.'

Well, with all the right-wing blather about 'activist judges' interpreting the Constitution, instead of simply following its straightforward language, I have to laugh (uncomfortably) at their recent jibes at the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to anyone born here.

You can't have it both ways - either we follow the literal sacred words of the Founding Fathers (where the amendment is clear) or you admit that times change and interpretation is necessary, to adjust to current realities (which demolishes their pathetic argument that 'the Constitution does not address Gay Marriage').

Of course, intellectual consistency is for oxymorons.

Best wishes to Christopher Hitchens, as he nears the End.

3 comments:

ben said...

well of course the 14th amendment wasn't written by the founding fathers.....

Barry in Portland said...

oops.

well, my crabby anger at the 'I vote the Constitution' retards still stands.

ben said...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-12-2010/you-re-welcome---constitutional-crisis