Scary Monsters
The Republicans have been working on their Halloween costumes for weeks. This year they are dressing as Founding Fathers.
Last month they introduced their "Pledge to America," giving the rest of us a frightening vision of their costume.
The basis for this pledge is the idea that the citizens of this country do not consent to our government and its actions. It echoes back to the Declaration's explicit dissolution of our bounds to Britain. Why is that frightening? Our nation is a representative democracy that depends on peaceful elections and transitions of power. Talk of revolution pretends that process is optional.
It's not. That process has held this country together for over 220 years.
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Last month they introduced their "Pledge to America," giving the rest of us a frightening vision of their costume.
The basis for this pledge is the idea that the citizens of this country do not consent to our government and its actions. It echoes back to the Declaration's explicit dissolution of our bounds to Britain. Why is that frightening? Our nation is a representative democracy that depends on peaceful elections and transitions of power. Talk of revolution pretends that process is optional.
It's not. That process has held this country together for over 220 years.
[more]
Labels: Congress, Constitution, Daily Camera, election 2010, hypocrisy, Obama, politics, Supreme Court
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