also believe that?" hearing only the rhetoric of the Republicans and lacking the perception to see the chasm between pontifications and policy. Thus, we seem to be attacking the Republicans when we are only ripping off their facade.
Perhaps thirdly (I say perhaps because this is probably just an overlap of the first two), the Republicans just give us so many opportunities! Exhibit A is the fiasco that has become Senate confirmation process for federal judges, or rather the appalling lack of any effective process. Can anyone seriously suggest that the Republican Party has any real commitment to reforming the federal judiciary, in this case through the confirmation of judges who understand their Constitutional obligation to interpret the law, not legislate it? Remember how it was because of the judicial appointments that we were all supposed to follow the lemmings into the Bush Sea? No matter how badly Bush and the Republicans behaved during the first four years, we needed them back with a stronger majority to re-shape the judiciary.
The "living evolving Constitution" fascists are laughing all the way to the courthouse, which is being stripped of all vestiges of the foundation of the law that was once revered. As a federal judge in Nebraska purports to strike down that state's Constitutional amendment defining marriage, the feckless Senate Republicans fritter away an opportunity to insist that the judges the President appoints be afforded "Advice and Consent" by a simple majority of the members of that body.
Of course, as Chuck Baldwin in a recent column pointed out, Constitutionalists should have no great hopes that the great majority of Bush's appointments will honor their oath of office if confirmed. But if the Republicans in the Senate, with their 55 45 majority, can't muster the will to get these confirmed, do we have any hope that Congress could find enough spine to reign in the judicial tyrants who think their word is law. Indeed, judicial tyrant is a fit and proper term to describe any federal judge who arrogates to himself the power to override laws that are properly enacted by state legislatures. It is one more example of how "conservatives" thought they won an election but the anti-constitutionalists are winning the public policy and practice war in spades.
"They also serve, who only stand and wait," was offered by the poet as a tribute to those who quietly do their duty, out of the limelight. While those deserve honor, we now have too many who are content to stand and wait. I'm here to say to all those Republicans, Democrats or members of other parties of any stripe who recognize that our liberty is a gift from God, who believe as our founding fathers did that it is our Creator who endows us with rights that no man has the right to take away, and that our Constitution was drafted by men who sought by it to secure those rights, the time for waiting is over. Now is the time for action!
Recognize that the failed policies of both Democrat and Republican administrations have desecrated our Constitution and destroyed our freedom. Those who stand and wait will be buried in the avalanche of continued judicial destruction of the U.S. and most state Constitutions and the crumbling of the foundations upon which this nation was built.
I frequently get asked why we (i.e. Constitution Party members) are always dumping on the Republicans and why we don't attack the Democrats with the same intensity that we employ against the Republicans.
That question can be answered in several ways. First, the light of truth shines on whatever cockroaches are running. Our job is to shine that light and it will expose whoever doesn't like the scrutiny. Is it our fault that it is often the Republicans whose hypocrisy is exposed when we measure them by the Constitutional standard?
Secondly, the Republicans are more likely targets of our criticisms because they are more likely to claim to hold to the principles that we cherish but their actions belie them. Consequently, those of the masses who recognize the Constitution Party as the "defender of the faith" may also say, "but don't the Republicans
