How Tea Partiers Get the Constitution Wrong

[bostondreamer]

Since winning the Republican senate primary in Delaware last month, Christine O’Donnell has not had trouble getting noticed. When the Tea Party icon admitted to “dabbl[ing] into witchcraft” as a youngster, the press went wild. When she revealed that she was “not a witch” after all, the response was rabid. O’Donnell has fudged her academic

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[roseofjuly]

Republicans must champion the “American values” enshrined in our sacred text. “There are more of us than there are of them,” she concluded.

LOL no

Also, Barack Obama is not a Muslim name. It's an Arabic name. You know, the 5th most spoken languange in the world? More native speakers than German and French put together?

I don't get people who believe the Constitution SHOULDN'T be a living document. It was written by a bunch of men who have been dead for over 200 years. They never even saw the Industrial Revolution, much less the Information Age.

Today, Angle asserts that “separation of church and state is an unconstitutional doctrine,” and Palin claims that “the Constitution…essentially acknowledg[es] that our unalienable rights…come from God.”

LOL WHAT

These people don't even KNOW what's in the Constitution!!

[apocalypsos]

These people don't even KNOW what's in the Constitution!!

The Tea Party's approach to the Constitution: tl;dr.

[romp]

The idea that the Constitution is perfect and should be ossified reminds me of the idea that the Christian bible should be read as a literal instruction manual because it's the world of God. From God's mind to the page via the hands of a few men.

Is that what they claim for the constitution? It wouldn't surprise me what with the belief that the country is blessed by God.

[fenris_lorsrai]

and Barack is just an alternate spelling of Baruch... y'know, THAT GUY IN THE BIBLE. But that's in the CATHOLIC bible, not the Protestant one, and we know those Catholics aren't Christians...

No really, I've heard that argument and gave them some serious side eye at that.

[bostondreamer]

No problem ^^

[age_of_green]

Tea Party, kindly stop bastardizing Very Important Legal documents to justify your own whack job religious views, kthnxbai.

Very good read, though-bookmarking for future reference.

[apocalypsos]

In the current Congress, conservatives like Michele Bachmann have suggested more than 40 additions to the Constitution: a flag-desecration amendment; a balanced-budget amendment; a “parental rights” amendment; a supermajority-to-raise-taxes amendment; anti-abortion amendment; an anti-gay-marriage amendment; and so on.

These two amendments will, I imagine, be merged into the "We don't want to give our kids a national debt, but WE sure as hell aren't going to pay any of it off!" amendment.

Angle has said that “government isn’t what our Founding Fathers put into the Constitution

... fuck it, I'm just going to stare at these GIFs so that at least SOMETHING in my body is rising while my fucking IQ is dropping after reading that.

[poetic_pixie_13]

... oh hai.

[superfan1]

Who's the hottie in the first gif?

[apocalypsos]

Ah, that would be Sam doing pull-ups in last week's episode of Supernatural. Mmmm. :D

[dgraymanxxx]

This is why I hate the Tea Party; they are trying to bring their Bible-thumping policies into Washington and assert that we are some Christian state that must enforce "God's law." Pfft.

I also hate the fact that the Teabaggers think they know what's right for America because the rest of us surely have no clue. *rolls eyes*