Today’s Heritage Foundation blog post notes that shortly after noon today all 435 members of the House of Representatives will take a constitutionally mandated oath to “…support and defend the Constitution…”
Heritage notes:
To help Members better fulfill their oath, the House will not only read
the Constitution aloud on Thursday but also adopt a rule requiring that
every bill cite what specific provisions of the Constitution empower
Congress to enact it.
I can’t wait to see the creative ways that Progressives will twist and bend the Constitution to meet the requirement that bills cite constitutional authority.
Of course, The New Times is not amused. The Heritage blog post concludes with:
But not everyone sees it this way. The New York Times
editorializes this morning: ?There is a similar air of vacuous
fundamentalism in requiring that every bill cite the Constitutional
power given to Congress to enact it.? We?ll let President Abraham
Lincoln respond:Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every
American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap?let it
be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written
in Primers, spelling books, and in Almanacs;?let it be preached from
the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of
justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the
nation; and let the old and the young, the rich and the poor, the grave
and the gay, of all sexes and tongues, and colors and conditions,
sacrifice unceasingly upon its altars.
