Twitter exchange via LegalInsurrection...
Glenn Greenwald
Just in under the wire, a clear winner for dumbest and most incoherent NYT Op-ed of 2012:
Matt Yglesias
ggreenwald calls it the “dumbest and most incoherent NYT op-ed of 2012.” I think it’s pretty good:
Glenn Greenwald
There seems to be a “Progressives against the Bill of Rights” group rapidly emerging on Twitter: exciting!
Matt Yglesias
ggreenwald Whatever, I’m back to the fiscal cliff beat. Just don’t run around saying I’m against the bill of rights.
Glenn Greenwald
mattyglesias That’s what that Op-Ed you endorsed is saying - that’s ignore- rather than amend - the Constitution means.
Funny. But of course if you boiled it down to his actual beliefs he would be against the BOR too.
Questions like "Should Catholic hospitals be forced to supply birth control" or "Should Catholic Churches be forced to perform same sex marriages" or "Is private gun ownership a right" would show that he would eliminate nearly all the BOR anyway.