Democrats: We Will Overcome the Constitution
Nothing stirs the passions of Democrats these days quite like the prospect of gutting the Constitution.
In an unprecedented act of pretend political bravery, House members held a catered sit-in, demanding that Republicans allow a vote to strip away protections of Second, Fifth and Sixth Amendments of the Constitution.
It was quite the scene.
There were the selfie-happy Democrats singing "We Shall Overcome" while demanding passage of a bill that those right-wing nutjobs over at the American Civil Liberties Union have "strongly" argued would undermine civil liberties.
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The message was clear, though.
If we recklessly cling to the presumption of innocence, the terrorists have already won.
If we fail to let bureaucrats create extrajudicial secret government lists that deny Americans their right to due process, we are, in essence, selling ISIS weapons of mass destruction.
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Civil rights-era heroes like Rep. John Lewis, who lent his considerable legacy to this vacuous grandstanding, was once on the terror watch list himself.
He didn't know how he got on it.
He didn't know how to get off of it.
Yet, today he believes this Kafkaesque system is a sound way to deny his fellow citizens their rights.
This is the Democratic Party of 2016.
Engaging in emotional blackmail and demagoguery, and waving pictures of the victims of Islamic terrorism to push an unrelated bill that would not have saved a single one of those lives and will never pass, all the while lying about guns.
Lying about the laws that govern guns and refusing to vote for, or even discuss, a compromise measure Republicans forwarded in the Senate.
It's been far more important to gin up anger and moral outrage for political gain.
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