The Constitution is not open to an up or down vote

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Protein Wisdom:

April 10, 2013

The Constitution is not open to an up or down vote

 

And yet the Senate — including a number of Senate Republicans — believes it is within its legislative bailiwick to alter a Constitutional amendment to the Bill of Rights without going through the amendment process, and with zero public deliberation, based on a simple up or down vote, something Mark Levin rightly and righteously condemns.

 

This is what tyranny looks like. But if you need a little nudge to get the point, I suggest you not picture these insulated, smug, arrogant temporary politicians holed up in smoke-filled rooms in expensive shoes, sipping single malt scotch making casual decrees about which of your unalienable rights you will be allowed to keep — because while that’s accurate it’s also largely cliched to American audiences — but instead, picture them as they really are, unvarnished, unpolished, wearing military fatigues and holding riding crops, sporting thick bristly mustaches through which they bark propaganda from balconies as their beneficent police force surrounds the crowds of the sovereign’s subjects, the masses, the wards of the state, the little people for whom the ruling elite daily sacrifice their time, championing them with endless programs and schemes to keep them fed and safe.