Why there it is, inside the Capitol, being waved around by members delighted to solve a problem that doesn't exist while ignoring ones that do. Last week, your House of Representatives voted 286 to 130 to amend the Constitution to save the flag from being burned. It now goes to the Senate to be waved.
You say you weren't worried about flag-burning? That's why the folks in Congress make the big bucks and you don't. Ever since 1989, when the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protected desecrating the flag, the Congress has been grandstanding about it with little danger of actually desecrating the Constitution with a frivolous amendment. It gives Republicans something other than the morning-after pill, gay marriage and lesbian puppets on public TV to rail against.
If lawmakers wanted to do something really patriotic this July Fourth, they might do their jobs. How about asking hard questions about the war, and beefing up the armor on those Humvees that keep getting blown apart? If the symbol of Old Glory is so important, why have so few Congressman traveled to Dover to see it serving the high purpose of draping the coffins of the 1700 soldiers who died for it?
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They sure won't run into the ever-optimistic president there. His response to the fresh wave of carnage in Iraq was to take to the airwaves Tuesday night in a PR effort designed, White House senior adviser Dan Bartlett said, to ``educate the American people'' about ``our strategy for victory.''
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