As we reported this morning [yesterday], House Republicans will kick-start the 112th Congress tomorrow with a spirited recitation of the Constitution, a document whose recent relevance is due largely to the ideological and sartorial interests of the Tea Party.[…]
According to Keating:
The amount I get is nearly $1.1 million. $1,071,872.87, to be exact, though of course this is more back-of-the-envelope than exact.When one chamber of Congress is in session but not working, we the people still have to pay for members’ salaries and expenses, and for their police protection, and for keeping their lights and phones and coffee machines on. Even Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Mike Pence (R-IN) combined don’t blow enough hot air to heat the Capitol in January.
Keating’s point is irrelevant because congress was going to be in session regardless as to what was said. I also think they exaggerated the precise cost to the limits of good taste and perhaps beyond.
How much did it cost congress for Charlie Rangel’s trial and spiel on his innocence? Considering that there exists more than one legal argument to render the health control law unConstitutional, you’d think that congress would want to perhaps learn about the document which they swore to uphold.
Of course, we know that many Democrats could care less about that “old” document:
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It amazes me how the left will assault the Constitution as being some sort of anachronistic document but hide behind the First Amendment when protest Bush, Palin, Beck, or any other figure on the right. If they think that time ages such rights and that things like the right to vote and the freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures are irrelevant, they’ve no opposition if forfeiting those rights themselves.
And did the Constitution ever become irrelevant? I hope the recent organized push to present our founding document as antiquated isn’t lost on anyone.
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