Comments on: Me ‘n Phib

By: ninme

ninme — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:47:41 +0000

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.”

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:33:52 +0000

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.

By: RC2

RC2 — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:05:39 +0000

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

By: Rueful Red

Rueful Red — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:40:09 +0000

Ah! An infirm purpose of Amendment!

By: RC2

RC2 — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:08:22 +0000

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.