Politics: Coming Soon: Constitutional Amendments for Everything
The average number is skewed, so let's calculate it this way. There are 27 constitutional amendments, but only 17 since the ratification of the document in 1791. 17 in 220 years means that we don't ratify the document everytime somebody gets pissed about something, right?
Wrong. Already the loony-dominated, right-wing nut-bar filled House of Representatives has passed an amendment to the Constitution outlawing flag "desecration," in response to the underwhelming 8 flag-burning incidents that occur each year. (Nearly every one of those is punishable under other laws against public burning, inciting a riot, destruction of public property or someone else's private property.) Now we've got this crap from some loon in the House and endorsed by Bush henchman extraordinaire, Senator Bill "The Cat-Killer" Frist:
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The average number is skewed, so let's calculate it this way. There are 27 constitutional amendments, but only 17 since the ratification of the document in 1791. 17 in 220 years means that we don't ratify the document everytime somebody gets pissed about something, right?
Wrong. Already the loony-dominated, right-wing nut-bar filled House of Representatives has passed an amendment to the Constitution outlawing flag "desecration," in response to the underwhelming 8 flag-burning incidents that occur each year. (Nearly every one of those is punishable under other laws against public burning, inciting a riot, destruction of public property or someone else's private property.) Now we've got this crap from some loon in the House and endorsed by Bush henchman extraordinaire, Senator Bill "The Cat-Killer" Frist:
"Asked whether he supported an amendment that would ban any marriage in the United States except a union of a man and a woman, Frist said: "I absolutely do, of course I do.""
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