I heard a snippet of a defiant Sarah Palin rallying the troops today. Words to the effect of, "No matter what, we're gonna keep clinging to our guns, our religion and our Constitution."
As if anybody's trying to pry them out of your cold, dead hands. Guns? Americans' obsession with firearms has never been more secure. Last year Congress (a Democratic Congress, mind you) legalized packin' heat in national parks. Back off, Smoky Bear!
The Constitution? I assume this refers to the unpopular federal mandate to buy health insurance. Look, health care is a form of interstate commerce. Who knows how many states supplied the stethoscopes, syringes, monitors and scrubs that made your last hospital stay such a success? The Constitution grants the federal government the authority to regulate interstate commerce (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3), and the courts have interpreted that right quite broadly. Which they should, because you can't have a 21st century economy with an 18th century regulatory scheme. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's unconstitutional.
Religion? Please. When will Christians stop being such whiners? Not getting to pray in Jesus' name before a football game doesn't rank up there with getting thrown to the lions. Halden has called our attention to the Archbishop of Canterbury's common sense advice to "remember those many, many places where persecution is real and Christians are being killed regularly and mercilessly or imprisoned and harassed for their resistance to injustice" (italics mine) whenever we hear such "overheated rhetoric."
Sarah Palin is a textbook demagogue, and the slutty stewardess packaging makes her boilerplate that much more appealing. Mainly what's she really good at is getting people who are whiter, maler, more highly educated, more highly paid, and less likely to be unemployed than the average American feel sorry for themselves, and feel like she, Sarah Palin, understands.
Yeah, yeah, everybody's a victim these days.
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