House Republicans to read the Constitution aloud in its entirety

[somone]

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/31/132512289/house-republicans-to-read-constitution-aloud

House Republicans To Read Constitution Aloud
December 31, 2010

With a nod to the Tea Party, the Republicans taking over the House of Representatives next week will read the Constitution aloud, in its entirety. It's something that has never been done in the chamber's 221-year history. Many in the Tea Party feel Congress has strayed far from the country's founding principles.

[abelenkpe]

1. Maybe the stoopid repubs learn something nt

[sammytko]

16. Agree!

[ClassWarrior]

2. Sorry... couldn't get past the first four words...

"House Republicans to read."

:rofl:

NGU.

[madmax]

3. Great idea......

Maybe the 'morans' will learn to spell it, too.

[GodlessBiker]

4. They spell as well as they comprehend.

[KansDem]

9. I wondered about that: "Constution?"

Why can't these people spell?

[RockaFowler]

5. But do they understand it??

:yoiks:

[rucky]

6. And for many of them, it'll be the first time. n/t

[PoliticAverse]

7. This is great...

maybe they'll even consider following it...

[CTyankee]

8. Are they going to wear wigs, tricorn hats and knee britches? nt

[Odin2005]

10. They fetishize it like it were holy.

They wave it around as if it were a talisman that will banish the "librul-soshulist" evil demons.

[WinkyDink]

11. Really? Because I'll look forward to the 4th and 6th Amendments.

[ladywnch]

12. As I read about Congress critters reading the Constitution I can't help

recall the line from A Fish Called Wanda......between Jamie Lee Curits and Kevin Klein......


Klein: monkeys don't read Nietche. (wrong spelling I know)

Curtis: yes they do. they just don't understand it.


They may be able to read it, but understanding it is another issue entirely.

I can read most of a medical text book.....I don't understand squat from it....but I can read it.

[booley]

26. or as someone else already put it

... they read and "understood" the constitution in the same way they claim to have read and understood the Bible; they began reading it knowing what they knew and what they wanted it to say, so that must be what it says.

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12155

Apparently they have already decided that the word Welfare in General Welfare does not mean the welfare of actual people.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. This will probably be the first time many of them have read it at all.

There's some stuff in there that might surprise them, like the part about promoting the general welfare and where it says there shall be no religious test for any public office.

[old mark]

14. Seems like many of them have never read it - they certainly don't understand

it, or what it is about...


mark

[Kali]

15. I have no problem with them doing that

hope they will run it in full live on the tee vee nuze channels

[thelordofhell]

17. It's so they can know what they're going to wipe their ass with

Get ready for impeachment hearings, department slashing hearings, and tax cuts for the rich proposals for the next two years from these fuckwads.

:argh:

[arcane1]

18. It would be interesting to read along with them if it's televised

to see if they omit anything.

[Ezlivin]

19. Now if they could only COMPREHEND the Constitution in its entirety

Baby steps.

[Jackpine Radical]

20. Apparently being awake

doesn't help much with their spelling.

[joanski0]

21. I can't imagine

that any of them will be there listening it. I think they will take turns in an empty chamber. Only the poor clerks will have to listen to it.

[Blaukraut]

22. The 112th congress - house in particular - is going to be a circus n/t

[ChoppinBroccoli]

23. There Should Be A Camera On The Crowd At The Time.......

...........so it can capture all the confused/dumbfounded looks on the faces of the Republicans as they go, "What?" and "THAT'S in there???" And then afterward when some of them stand up and shout, "You forgot to read the part where it mentions the Bible!!!"

[sharesunited]

24. Will they mumble and stammer when they get to the part

where Native Americans are excluded from the census and black people count as three-fifths of a person?

[jwirr]

25. Does that include the bill of rights? Many of them do not seem to

care about them unless it is about guns.

[NV Whino]

27. They going to borrow Mr Kucinich's copy?

[HopeHoops]

28. Too bad they don't fucking understand it.

Reading it is at least a good start - I doubt most of them ever have.