U.S. Constitution to Be Read Aloud in House Tuesday

Great! But will members actually be sitting in their seats listening, or will the room be empty and the text be added to the minutes, like all other floor debate. We need real leadership. Our ship is sinking and no one is trying to right the boat!

LOL….I knew that this piece of ‘theatrical crap’ had to come from a Republican….and sure enough…I was right. This is the 21st century folks. And what do you want to bet me that however number of Representatives who sit through this ‘theatrics’….that there won’t be the SAME NUMBER OF PERSONAL INTERPRETATIONS. of what that document represents….in direct and indirect relationship…. to today’s world? When is the GOP going to ‘grow up’…and quit pandering to the element of this country…that ‘can’t get past’….THE PAST? BECAUSE THAT ‘ELEMENT’…IS CURRENTLY DESTROYING THEM.

So tell me CMD FOX – it sounds like you think the constituion is outdated – so then why not ammend it?

Go read it to Harry Reid and to Obama since they seem to prefer to wipe their butts wth it.

Quit wasting posturing for the public and DO SOMETHING USEFUL AND PRAGMATIC ! Idiots , along with the mega-idiots who voted for them . ( * shakes head * ) , The day the conservatives are reduced to a minority who cannot obstruct and foot drag the rest of the nation will be the day the USA starts it’s true “recovery ” . They and their most staunch advocates ( like the NRA ) are like a nagging disease that is slowly eating away at the heart of this nation . The sooner they are gone , the sooner real noticeable ” health ” will return .

All show , no substance . Where’s the beef ? GET BUSY YOU LOSERS AND QUIT PANDERING TO MORONS !

They skipped some parts that Republicans don’t like last time. Theywillprobably do that again this time.

“This reading of the Constitution demonstrates that House Republicans are committed to our Constitution and the enduring principles for which it stands.” — What a load. No one on the Hill has a commitment to anything but their own greed.

I wonder if they will find anything in there about upholding pledges to special interest groups being more important than their oath to the Constitution and the American People? After all, that is what they have been doing for the past several years – and Grover Norquist etal are so happy with the results!

Few things are what they were centuries ago. The constitution has many good parts but is also somewhat of a relic. Those who hold on to its every word and punctuation mark so tightly as to make their hands and heads lose all blood supply and ability to think need to reflect on that, as much as on their sacred document. Even most religions have evolved over time. Is it time?

What a joke…all for show only…all to, once again, fool the American public…no representative will give up their campaign contributions or gifts from special interest groups…so until that is done, our death spiral continues and this reading will change NOTHING…

We pay these idiots $174,000 dollars a year for this? This is a stunt by people who obviously think they have nothing better to do. I want them to start respecting the people they represent and get to the work they are paid to do! Pandering and gesturing is not what the taxpayers are working their collective behinds off to pay for! Go to work! They are like children!

All show , no substance . Where’s the beef ? GET BUSY YOU LOSERS AND QUIT PANDERING TO MORONS !
Posted by: davem | January 14, 2013, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm

I see you watched Obama’s press conference today. Exactly what I thought about it also.

The question is – will they listen, understand and follow? Do they understand phrases like “shall not be infringed upon”?

FREEDOM: “The President thinks guns are bad and do not save people, but then he turns right around and gives himself secret service for the rest of his life. Guess their not going to carry guns.” – - – Oh please, stop with the dishonest whining like toddlers throwing a tantrum over this. For decades it has been SOP for former Presidents’ to have a Secret Service detail after they leave office. There is NOTHING new here.

You people are MAD! “Theatrics?” “Element of society?” “Pandering?” This is THE CONSTITUTION of the United States of America! It is the one and only document you should not ignore! Oh, ……. My, oh my! What have we become?

.you would think the democrats ended slavery—– ??? This is just about the most entertaining piece of self denial I have ever seen republicans feed themselves. It’s absolutely hysterical. It’s up there with Hitler thinking he was a kind person because he was good to his dog. Nobody, nobody, is so delusional as to imagine that the populations of the north and south all switched places. Political parties are simply names…just titles. The south, the ‘democrats’ not only were willing to go to war, they sacraficed their sons, their own blood, to keep slavery alive and if you read the speeches of EVERY senator from the south, particularly from south Carolina it is SPEELD OUT that the confederacy was about slavery. period. Over and out, I dont care what revisionist history anyone tried to pander, the vice President of the confederacy gave the “Cornerstone SPeech” saying that slavery would be THE cornerstone, the base, the FOUNDATION of the confederacy. Fact. Your people, your ancestors perhaps, were on the side equivalent with the SS in Germany. Germans have dealt with, owned, the evil of their ancestors FAR better than southerners have owned thiers. Everyone is always trying to make excuses for you people, to have you ‘not feel bad’ be politically correct. THat’s just all wrong. You need to suck it up, bite the bullet, deal. Suck it in, my relatives fought for an evil cause, accept it, and MOVE ON!!!!! You people are STUCK in the civil war because you can’t just own up to your own demons.

“What have we become”…CARSONCITYSTEVE? Well on the side of those who claim this is a ‘violation’ of the Constitution or the 2nd amendment – I would say a bunch of shallow, uneducated populists who are given to ‘emotion’…not ‘intellectualism’ or ‘reality’. Just because they are ‘ideologically blind’ to their own ‘subjective interpretations’….doesn’t make them right. That is for the ‘totality’ of society….to decide.

like any of them care about the constitution unless it gives them some reason to argue against what the other side is doing. i’d bet that upwards of 90% of them have never read the thing in their lifetime and half of them probably don’t know there’s a difference between the constitution and the declaration of independence. it would not surprise me if we currently have the most uninformed congress ever in terms of american history.

I’ts funny the fear over terrorism from arabs. I dropped my kid off at a move theater and drove away with my heart in my stomach. The biggest threat to my kids is not an arab or a muslim fundamentalist. It’s a NRA member on a rampage.

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A California judge found Monday that a boy was responsible for the second-degree murder of his white supremacist father when the defendant was just 10.

Prosecutors had argued at trial that the boy, now 12, knew what he was doing when he shot 32-year-old Jeff Hall — a regional leader of the National Socialist Movement — and the slaying was premeditated.

Defense attorney Matthew Hardy countered that his client grew up in an abusive and violent environment and learned it was acceptable to kill people who were a threat. Hardy contended the boy thought if he shot his dad, the violence would end.

IMO this is a publicity stunt and will be ignored after being in the headlines for 1 day. The U.S. is like the Titanic, sinking slowly while the band plays music to keep the people from panicking.

“It being necessary to overthrow a tyrannical government, an individual’s right to bear arms shall not be infringed upon”

There, I just wrote the 2nd amendment as the NRA interprets it and I’m not half as smart as the Founders.

If that was the intent why didn’t the Founders say what I said explicitly?

The obvious reason is that that was not their intent.

If these republicans want to quote the Constutution they need to read it.

To them the 14th admendment doesn’t exist which forbids a debt limit.

Full reading this time or will it be the abridged Republican version?

If the Constitution says we don’t have to pay insurrectionists under the 14th amendment, why the hell to we have to arm them under the 2nd amendment.

Did they forget what it said and they needed a refresher? They could have all read it over their Christmas break. What a waste of time.

tmferretti, a debt ceiling is essentially a limit on the amount of money the u.s. can borrow or the amount of bonds the u.s. can issue. its constitutionality has been questioned, and the 14th amendment says “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned.” you skip over the “authorized by law” portion…which logically means debts that were incurred after properly being authorized. it does say that the debts lawfully incurred must be paid (which means that the debts congress has in the past authorized must be paid) but it does not mean that there is no limit on the amount of spending in which congress can engage. to be sure, we must pay our lawfully incurred debts per the 14th amendment, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that congress can’t set a limit on the amount of money that can be “lawfully authorized.” having a budget would help, but DC doesn’t like having one because that would mean they would actually know how much money they can spend from year to year. they’d rather spend it and later fight about how to pay it.

Perhaps they won’t screw up the reading this time like they did the last time.
Wait!!!! What am I saying???!!!!!!

I’d bet my bottom dollar that they’ll skip parts of it again, like the 14th ammendment.
Or 19th.

They’ll just ignore the parts they don’t like, just like they do with The Bible!

CND FOX and 40,000,000 murdered since Roe v. Wade. But that doesn’t outrage your liberal sensibilities, does it?

It’s only a matter on time before the liberals bankrupt this country, I’ll bet they wish they had guns and ammo then! I know I will have some on hand!

Live With It you posted, ” It’s funny the fear over terrorism from arabs. I drop my kid off at a movie theater and drove away with my heart in my stomach. The biggest threat to my kids is not an arab or a muslim fundamentalist. It’s a NRA member on a rampage.” To be perfectly honest I’m more afraid of a gang member with an illeagal gun doing a drive by shooting and missing their intended target than I am one mentally ill gun owner that went on a rampage. How many innocents die each day because of illeagal guns in the hands of criminals? Just saying.