Reply #134: its actually a brilliant ploy used by the Dems to fend off an amendment [View All]

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If you're going to hate HC for doing this, you're going to have to hate a lot of Democrats. This legislation gets introduced every year and always has a couple of Democratic co-sponsors. And if you go back to the 1980s when the SCOTUS struck down Texas' flag burning law, the Democrats supported, virtually unanimously, a flag protection law (knowing it would be struck down as it was) in order to fend off a constitutional amendment. Bush I refused to sign the law (but wouldn't veto it either) because he wanted a constitutional amendment. DOes that mean we should admire Bush I for being principled and hate the Democrats for employing a strategy that frustrated the flag worshipers?

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