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5 Responses to “Me ‘n Phib”

1. RC2 Says:
   June 28th, 2006 at 3:08 pm

   Not to mention amendment attempts are usually nothing more than a way for legislators to shirk their own duty to interpret the Constitution, shifting all the heavy lifting to the Court.

   When I hear a Congressman or Senator say he supports a Constitutional amendment, I take that as a sign he is willing to do nothing substantive in the Legislature about said issue, whatever it may be.

2. Rueful Red Says:
   June 29th, 2006 at 3:40 am

   Ah! An infirm purpose of Amendment!

3. RC2 Says:
   June 29th, 2006 at 7:05 am

   Oh, excellent. I’ll credit you when I use that in a post.

4. Rueful Red Says:
   June 29th, 2006 at 7:33 am

   Blush.

   I find the “doing nothing substantive” insight most intriguing. I’ll use it as a prism. Or shibboleth. A way of smoking out the real intention.

5. ninme Says:
   June 29th, 2006 at 8:47 am

   Oh sure, don’t credit me for my multitudinous witticisms during your many engagements in the Halls of Power, but by all means credit my readers!

   I think the whole thing is a bit like what’s continuously going on in Britain. They have nearly a thousand years of laws and precedent to draw from, but no one’s motivated enough to go through and actually read any of it so they all figure “Hell let’s just throw another one on the stack.”

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