The Commerce Clause and the rest of the Bill of Rights (I, III-IX) give them the vapours.

Doubtless the wingnuts will excuse themselves, but the constitution was not only read only in part, but a couple of the congressmen (Sessions and Fitzpatrick) didn’t get sworn in but voted anyway. The hearing on repealing healthcare had to be postponed to make up some way to get on with it without satisfying constitutional requirements. They’ve got that remedial readings thing working for or against them, not sure which.

Methinks the party doth protest too much. Everyone knows the Repubs hate the Constitution just as much as everybody else.

You left out the ‘snark’ disclaimer? The constitution setting up a government under democratic standards is rather nice, imho. Do not know folks who hate it who aren’t determined to break the laws, anyway.

It’s like rabies — likes and dislikes have nothing to do with it.

They’re Reading Article II, Sec. 1 yesterday, and get to the part where it describes the qualifications of the president:
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President
and a birther goes off in the gallery, screaming “Help us, Jesus!”

I will personally follow the circus @BoehnersTears

I have always said that politics is a pendulum

many wouldn’t know this but I once fancied myself a concervative, that was before reagan/limbaugh distorted the meaning of the word

anyway, the pendulum has swung to the right for far too long, we thought the return started when we elected democrats to majority, sadly there were blue dogs and we didn’t get any left swing at all

then we elected o bummer and the pendulum began swinging even further to the right

when does the pendulum begin it’s long awaited return?

now that the media is owned in concentration, that might never ever happen

you know, sometimes clocks break, sometimes that pendulum stops swinging, it an sometimes stop way off to the right if the clock is slanted

And sometimes bumping the pendulum farther to the right just delays an even larger swing to the left.

The kids are getting really ticked off at us. A day of reckoning is coming.

So I live in a district that has no official representative, Pa-08, because the staunch constitutional professional political hack was in the capitol visitor center fundraising from 500 supporters because you can’t fundraise in congress proper. Is there a bright red line between the shake down center and the congress proper because you know these guys would never cross a line like that.

So this brain claims because him and pete raised their hands to the TV when the oath was given they are really sworn in. Really .

I raise my hand to the tube alla time, guess that makes me sworn in in many ways, too. Understand that the wingnuts were pretty much absent from the reading of the constitution, maybe it was to give themselves an excuse for not following it.

Good morning, pups. It’s Brooks and Krugman today. Bobo says we all have to “Buckle Up for Round 2,” and that the health care crackup is coming, no matter how much people wish the issue would just go away. Bobo is a true master of concern trolling. Prof. Krugman, in “The Texas Omen,” says another conservative economic miracle bites the dust, with implications for the nation.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and I’ve got buckwheat pancakes for breakfast. TGIF — This week has been absolutely interminable. I’m running late, so I’m heading out to turn into the pink blur to get ready for work. Have a great day.

I raise my finger and swear at the TV a number of times am I a congresscritter now?

Good morning Marion. I was cleaning out my files and found this from June 2008. The desk is a mite untidy unlike now!

One has to wonder if the prison system and state sponsored murders of innocent people are not costing the texans way too much moolah.

Too cute! I’ve always thought that a clean desk was the sign of a diseased mind…

thanks, Marion, that TX brag hasn’t fooled anyone here as private prison scandals grow. The secession would make no one unhappy except us in TX, especially when the TXDot folks were letting it out that all the construction was being funded by stimulus funds.

A far better one than the likes of Ralph Hall and Virginia Foxx.

If your desk is already clean, that’s one less thing the man will have to worry about if he chooses you to lay off.

Very good thinking. Make it look like you’re busy. Reminds me of a time I worked with a Sr. VP who actually did shuffle papers. Moved them around the desk. His actual work was all done by other folks.

See??? There’s method in my madness! I’m the only living soul who can find anything in my office. And I know where everything is. WHEE! I must be indispensible, right? /megalomania

How much did this little kabuki stunt waste of taxdollars?

Republicans to Spend $1.1 Million Reciting Constitution on House Floor

In 1895, SCOTUS abrogated much of the constitutional authority of the U.S. citizen to interpret the laws under the U.S. Constitution. It seems to me that having the representatives of the people read the U.S.constitution out loud could viewed as adding insult to injury. Somehow I do not think those House Republicans were advocating greater citizen control over SCOTUS.

This article may influence your views about how seriously the U.S. Supreme Court feels bound by the U.S. Constitution.

The (original) Constitutional Relationship of the People to the Law
http://i-voter.tripod.com/ConstitutionalJury.html

How about a Recall Petition? These jokers have no respect for their office or their constituents.