House Constitution Reading - I Wonder if the Liberal Democrats were Confused?

By Douglas V. Gibbs

I hear that when the Republicans read their portions of the U.S. Constitution, they read it with conviction and zeal. The Democrats read their sections as if it was a chore.

I wonder how many Democrats, during the reading of the Constitution, were confused, thinking that the GOP had left parts out, or that the Constitution in their hands had somehow been changed.

When Article I, Section 1 was being read, "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives," the liberal Democrats must've been asking themselves:

"Where's the part about executive orders being able to modify law? What about the part enabling the courts to strike down law? Where's the part about federal agencies and czars having regulatory powers? What does it mean by all legislative powers belonging to the Congress?"

The First Amendment must've really screwed them up: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. . ."

They must've asked themselves, "Where's the part that says religion must be prohibited by the government if it offends anyone? Where's the part about religion not being allowed to have a political opinion?"

None of those provisions you wish for, my dear Democrats, are in the U.S. Constitution. They don't exist. You, my friends, made them up, and then used the courts to force them upon America.

I wish I could have been there to watch the liberals squirm while the law of the land was being read on the House floor.

I wonder if any of them walked out in disgust?

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