"We haaave to go back to the constituuuutiooon!!!"

[That Is Quite Enough]

Holy shit, I really wish people would stop screaming that at me all day.

It's getting really annoying, and it doesn't even make any sense.

[MadMaddie]

1. Problem is that as we do go back to the constitution

they don't like the results. They have never bothered to read it.

For an example the recent ruling on the Protection of Marriage basically said that the government can't pass a law that triumps state rights. Ha...ha...the right didn't see that coming.

[GoneOffShore]

2. Just like "Freedom isn't free!" A catchphrase from the politically illiterate.

[Warpy]

7. They start to bleat it obediently every time some industry

wants to wrest a market or natural resources from the locals.

Going back to the constitution is a catch phrase for going back to an earlier time which was, of course, perfect.

[xchrom]

3. I've never understood what the fuck they meant by that. Nt

[Warpy]

5. Wrong place, oops!

[Greyhound]

4. Article 1 section 8

just another part of The Constitution they've never read or care about.

[Arkana]

6. The people who say this have never READ the Constitution.

They have no idea what's really in the Constitution, and more importantly, they don't CARE what's in the Constitution. They want to turn the United States of America into the Holy Kingdom of Jesustan.

[Dr Morbius]

8. We haven't gone away from the Constitution.

The trouble is that with the Constitution, just as with the Bible, these people see what they want to see and ignore the rest. Like insisting homosexuality is a sin but forgetting Jesus died for such "sins." Like insisting Congress has no right interfering with commerce when they are constitutionally mandated to regulate commerce between the several states. Like insisting it's a Christian country because of Mr. Jefferson's unfortunate choice of words in the Declaration of Independence while ignoring the fact that the Constitution not only makes no mention of God or Christ but specifically forbids any establishment of religion.

Annoying? Tell them to read the damn thing sometime, that ought to shut them up!

[Arkana]

10. It doesn't forbid any establishment of religion.

What the Constitution says is that Congress shall make no law RESPECTING an establishment of religion. It means that no law making Christianity or any other religion the "official religion" of the country can be passed, or that people will be forced to convert to a specific faith, or that people will be forced to worship.

Those assholes like to say "It's not freedom FROM religion!" In fact, it's both: freedom OF religion AND freedom from religion. It says "Your religious beliefs end where mine begin."

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. Most of those idiots haven't read the Bible either

They just listen to what ever cherry-picked scriptures their pastor throws at them on Sunday morning and accepts whatever idiotic right wing spin he puts on them, as if it came directly from JC Himself.

Which is exactly how they accept the Constitution, as interpreted for them by hate radio and FAUX Noise.

[SharonAnn]

15. I had a man tell me last week that he was an "Old Testament Christian". What the

heck, I thought.

So I answered, "They used to call them Jews". I was going to say "Funny, you don't look Jewish."

[Ikonoklast]

9. No women voting....no blacks free...white landowners calling the shots.

I can see where they are coming from on this.

[Sebastian Doyle]

12. Well, the amendments are part of the Constitution, so they can't go back that far.

On the other hand, the Constitution says only Congress can declare war. Which means the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq must end immediately. I'm all for that.

[Nay]

13. They're the same ppl who laughed when Bush wiped his ass w/ the Constitution.

Jerks. Hypocrites. Republicans.

[DCBob]

14. "I want my country back!!"

Translation: They cant stand a black man in the WH.

[Sebastian Doyle]

16. Those words used to actually mean something...

....a few years back when Howard Dean said them.

http://www.crocuta.net/Dean/Transcript_of_Dean_Sacramen...

[Touchdown]

17. Dat Contatusion say No homos eyeballing my body in that wet squirt thing! Heh!