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I love how liberals all over the blogosphere are poo-pooing – nah, they’re just mocking the Republican’s reading of the Constitution to start the 112th Congress. Here’s an example from Alex Altman of Time:
That’s one reason why the fetishizing of the Constitution is unsettling. It’s not that it isn’t worthy of veneration or study. It’s that too often, the Constitution is wielded as a political cudgel, even if, as Garrett Epps wrote this week at the Atlantic, the cudgelers fail to grasp the document’s finer points. Both parties are desperate to claim themselves as the true descendants of the framers, and they drape themselves in the constitution like a political safety blanket, since it’s one of the only unassailable quantities in contemporary politics. (Among the others, I count jobs, capitalism, liberty, faith and not a whole lot else.)
I love how Altman, and others, think we’ve “failed to grasp the finer points” of the Constitution. Listen, you – it is the basis for our free (at least to the extent that it remains that way) society. Mock us -and it- if you will, but it doesn’t change the fact that there are a bunch of us out here in flyover country that still think we ought to abide by it. I, and millions of others like me, am glad to see that the new Republican-controlled House of Representatives want to remind themselves, the Democrats, and the rest of us, that it’s the basis for the greatest nation on the face of the earth.
