Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Senate rejects amendment on flag burning

The Senate has voted down a proposed constitutional amendment outlawing flag burning. So, you think, sanity rules in the Senate? No. The vote was 66 to 34, one short of passage. If you're counting, that's an insanity ratio of almost two to one. One wonders what Madison would think now of his great repository of deliberative democracy. I suspect he might just disown it altogether.

Senator Lautenberg of my former home state of New Jersey: "This is politics at its worst." Yes, just about. As Senator Feingold put it, such an amendment would "cut back the Bill of Rights for the first time". Much like President Bush's beloved amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage.

These are your Republicans at work. In desperation, which is where they are now, looking ahead to November, they play the patriotism card, the politics of scoundrels.

How predictable.

On a more serious note, though, if you let them get away with it, they'll take your rights away.

(See also Shakespeare's Sister, Echidne, Steve Benen, Norbizness, Ann Althouse, Christy Hardin Smith, Jill, Kathy Kattenburg, and DownWithTyranny.)

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