Monday, August 15, 2005
How charming of George F. Will to spend an entire column (the one in my local newspaper was entitled "A Closer Look at the Constitution," Aug. 14, 2005) setting up a straw man, labeling it "liberal," and knocking it down for the amusement of troglodytes.
Will is right in cherishing the U.S. Constitution as a jewel. He is correct that the Constitution embodies the philosophy that individual citizens have the right to property and self-government.
And Will is one hundred percent wrong about which of today's political parties wants to rewrite the Constitution to deprive U.S. citizens of those rights. It is Republicans who recently decided that government may take citizens' property to give to more profitable businesses. It is Republicans who want to deprive women of the right to control their own bodies. It is Republicans who want to deprive citizens of the right to love and marry whomever they choose, if they disapprove of those citizens. It is a Republican president who wants his religion's dogma taught in science classes as if it were equivalent to science, and it is Republicans who want that same religious dogma displayed on stone monuments on public property.
Self-government? Don't make me laugh. What do fabulously wealthy Republican incumbents combined with gerrymandering have to do with self-government?
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