Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Poseur Alert

Yesterday evening, as I reclined, half dozing after a couple of vodkas, in a hotel room in Gaylord, Michigan, I happened to click the teevee to CSPAN.  I very rarely view CSPAN, as I only receive five teevee channels in my home, because I do not subscribe to cable or satellite teevee.  Anyway, when I clicked the teevee over to CSPAN, it just happened that Representative Scott Garrett (R-NJ) had the floor.

I would have clicked right through CSPAN, to some other channel, but I did not because I heard these words issue from Mr. Garrett’s mouth.

Unfortunately, for most Americans, the Constitution is nothing more than a historical document, really, too often cited, and cited inaccurately, and nearly always greatly misunderstood.

When I heard Mr. Garrett speak these words, I set the clicker aside, because I thought, possibly, he might elucidate something of importance regarding the Constitution and the abuses said document receives at the hands of Mr. Garrett and his associates in the House and the Senate.

Alas, it was not so.  Mr. Garrett was simply mouthing platitudes to Constitution Day,

So as we celebrate the anniversary of our signing of our Nation’s most significant legal document, let us each and every one of us try to better familiarize ourselves with it. Highlighting and understanding what the Constitution actually says; what the intent of the authors actually was, and how it is now interpreted, stretched, or ignored will empower the public, like our forefathers once did, to stand up for their innate rights and to resist the growth of government at every level.

and attempting to encourage all his fellow professional job seekers to pass another needless piece of legislation.

And so I conclude as I had once before on this floor, to encourage this House to adopt legislation that is pending right now called the AMERICA Act, which is simply asking every Member of this body to on a yearly basis to simply read the Constitution, and their staffs as well. Let us start in this body to have an understanding of the Constitution and to share that belief with the American public as well.

Garrett’s entire little speech can be read here.

Poseur.

Posted by John Venlet on 09/20 at 04:30 PM
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