This constitution reading is pointless...

[luvspeas]

And pretty boring so far.

[muffin1]

1. A fucking stupid waste of time. n/t

[postalanthrax]

7. Which is the the point entirely.

I re-listened(?) to a Michael Parenti lecture on Fascism the other day. He mentioned how the fascists intended to use revolutionary sounding names and slogans to appeal to class anger without producing an actual revolution that would change the power structure.

What better revolutionary sounding name than calling something the Tea Party? Does it not fall into the above statement?

[muffin1]

13. Yes, I know WHY they're doing it.

They are tops at fooling their stupid base. I don't think for a second that they care one whit about the Constitution - except for the 2nd Amendment, of course.

[spanone]

2. it's all about the media saying 'it's never been done before'

they want to win the news headlines, nothing else

[LiberalFighter]

10. If they are wanting to do stuff that has never been done before.

Then why don't they masturbate while C-Span broadcasts?

[Stevenmarc]

26. LOL C-Span's Republican Short Film Festival

[deutsey]

3. But the stunt probably plays well to their base, I imagine

[CrownPrinceBandar]

4. who, like those doing the reading, have no idea what it means...n/t

[deutsey]

Right, it's just something that plays into their warped fantasy world

where they idolize things like the flag and the Constitution, but hate or don't understand what they mean.

[RKP5637]

5. To me this indicates just how far out of touch they are - they have to

read the constitution. One would have thought they would have been familiar with it before elected to office. I never cease to be amazed.

[JoePhilly]

6. Its a mini masturbation session for the Tea Party folks, nothing more.

[luvspeas]

8. It's the "when did you stop beating your wife" syndrome...

The people that don't go along with this dickery are accused of being unpatriotic. Wazzamatta? Don't you believe in the conztutooshun?

[kentuck]

9. And it's costing $1,000,000 to the taxpayers of America...

Maybe someone will make that point on the floor?

[postalanthrax]

11. I assume they'll skip over the part where only Congress "declare's wars"

[CrownPrinceBandar]

12. I'm surprised they're not just reading the parts they see as relavent...

like they do with some other sacred texts I can think of.

[Lucian]

14. They're reading it because the average Tea Partier doesn't know how to read.

[ladjf]

15. Expensive, wasteful, stupid, disingenuous political theater. nt

[wiggs]

16. It's a teabagger litmus test thingy...like demanding that

the pledge of allegiance is said before a meeting. Or that candidates wear a flag pin 24/7. It's pretty disgusting.

[luvspeas]

19. or demanding white robes and hoods or swastikas n/t

[hlthe2b]

17. Except that it is devastating to hear how poorly some can read...

and how damned ignorant they sound. It is clear that with a few exceptions, most do not know what they are reading, have not taken any time to read and understand it beforehand. They are just stumbling through the words on the paper and could be reading obituaries from China for all it matters.

[tkmorris]

18. Ya think?

[affrayer]

20. Maybe not....

The way most right wingers mangle the Constitution I've often wondered if they have read it.

Now at least they can claim they have read it...

Next they will give the campaign promise to understand it.

[luvspeas]

21. somebody's hollerin...

Codepink? probably.

[Fuzz]

22. I like how they aren't reading the 'bad' parts like the 3/5's clause.

Reason given because there is an amendment that 'cancels' it out.

Don't want to be reminded of the bad things, let's just airbrush it all into a Kincaid 'painting'.

[chelsea0011]

23. Has anyone confused the Constitution with The Declaration of Independence yet?

[XanaDUer]

24. It's political the-a-tre

nt.

[Xenotime]

25. This fixation on the constitution is sickening.

They worship the fucking thing like it has magical powers or something.