Just how offensive can the tea party get?

Good grief. This man, whose name is Larry Klagman, couldn’t get more offensive if he tried. (Has he paid his back child support payments yet?) Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz also put in an appearance with this gang who were waving American flags, Gadsden flags, and Confederate flags while some of them carried barricades from the WWII memorial to the White House.

Park police had to come out in riot gear to quell the uprising of thugs hell-bent on making their voices heard. Apparently the protestors simply don’t understand the meaning of the word “CLOSED.” There is no funding for the parks and monuments.

Obviously Klagman who is unelectable doesn’t stand for family values, but how can people  like Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz, spokespersons for the values crowd,   be seen with people who are tearing up government property?  I doubt seriously if any WWII veterans were in that crowd.   It will be interesting to see what this clean up will cost.

The thugs need to understand that if they don’t like the parks and monuments closed, they need to contact their cult heroes and tell those folks to fund the government without ridiculous strings attached. This is a simple concept. Thugs, there is no free lunch.

 

The Constitution, the right to vote and the absentee ballot

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I am not longer going to even listen to the Constitution freaks.  You know, those dudes who walk around with pocket copies of the Constitution–those people who replaced those geeks who walked around with slide rules first, and the pocket protectors.

The Constitution is simply a frame-work.  It doesn’t begin to address all of our body of laws and rights.  It is the bare bones.   If we depended on  just the Constitution,  one of our most cherished rights as Americans would not have even happened until the 14th amendment was ratified in 1868.  Of course I am referring to the right to vote.  No where is voting mentioned in the Constitution until the 14th amendment.  My right to vote would come along later, in 1920, when the 19th amendment was ratified:

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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