Freedom

I thought I was done for the morning but this whole charade in the House of Representatives has me needing to vent. They are reading the Constitution supposedly because the Tea Party cares about freedom and personal liberty. Well, I've given up trying to figure out what the Tea Party cares about but I know what the Republican Party has stood for my entire life -- under the guise of protecting States' rights they repeatedly argue the Constitution never envisioned such a large role for the Federal government.

First of all, this is a crock of spit. The folks who wrote the Constitution we're as divided as we are on the role of the government and thus the Constitution itself was a series of political agreements which plainly left these decisions for future generations to debate as society progressed, as they knew it would. The Constitution was clearly intended to be a living document. No need to look any further then how they resolved the slavery issue. They took a pass on it and wrote in a rather obvious political agreement which made millions of Americans only 3/5 a person.

Second, the Republican Party wants to limit the role of the Federal government precisely so States can have more freedom to limit the personal freedoms of the citizens of this country. The Republican Party wants states to decide the the boundaries of civil liberties. The Republican Party doesn't want the Federal government protecting your rights over the objection of conservative (red) states. It's that simple.

That's not protecting freedom. That's limiting freedom. We have a Federal government set up as it is so that we all have a certain level playing field of rights no matter what state we happen to inhabit. Those rights protected by our Constitution make this the greatest nation on earth. The Republicans don't want to expand and protect those rights. They want to allow individual states' to dismantle those liberties.