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Strict Constructionism 
Mon Dec 06, 2010 at 07:15:15 AM MST
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There is a line in "A Fish Called Wanda" that comes to mind when I think about Tea Party Conservatives and many of what passes for main-line Republicans these days. Wanda if talking to Otto and he says "Apes don't read philosophy" Wanda replies "Yes, they do, Otto, they just don't understand it". That is where I am with Tea Partiers and the Constitution.
Sure they claim to have fealty to it, in that invariant way that some believers claim about the bible, but what good does it do you to be faithful to something you clearly don't understand? Take the soon to be Governor of Maine, Paul LePage. He was quoted recently as saying:
"I am going to be sitting with our attorney general and ask him to join the (health care reform) lawsuit against the federal government," he said, adding he just learned that if 35 states join the suit, the law "dies, automatically." Twenty states so far have joined the suit, filed in federal court in Florida, to repeal the provision in health care reform law that requires individuals to purchase health insurance.
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Wed Mar 24, 2010 at 06:56:36 AM MST
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When I was a six or seven, I asked my Dad to explain what political conservative was (yes, I was just as big a politics nerd as a child as I am now, it must be genetic). It was harder than he thought but he came down on the definition that a conservative was someone that wanted to keep things as much the same as they were or are today as possible. Dad was great in that he did not attach any negative connotations to this desire, in fact he made a point to say that it was important to have folks like this, lest the nation make big mistakes. It is sad to say, but the definition Dad provided 30 plus years ago does not seem to apply anymore.
The actions of the current conservatives and the Republican Party where they make their home seems to be far more about turning back the clock then slowing the pace of change. The best example of this is their legal thinking. Any time there is a new law that they do not like, they run all the way back to the Constitution and say that it is not in that venerable 223 year old document.
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