Posted on 12/07/2015 6:47:19 PM PST by markomalley
Got a soft spot for the oldest written constitution in the world, the one for which every president upon taking office must swear an oath to preserve, protect and defend?
Then you're clearly a "jackass" according to Ed Schultz, who joins a long sordid list of lefties who can't hide their contempt for the founding charter that George Washington once described as "a guide which I will never abandon." Yes, he was the Father of our Country, but clearly didn't have a clue.
Since MSNBC decided last summer that it no longer needed Schultz's working class shtick, he's taken to bloviating daily on a podcast along with many of the same guests who used to nod in vigorous agreement with him on The Ed Show.
There he was on Friday, venting about GOP opposition to more laws restricting gun ownership in the wake of the San Bernardino bloodbath, when it became apparent that his loathing for Republicans also extends to the Constitution --
(audio at link)
So what has to happen here, folks, and this is political tough talk -- if the Democrats don't want any silence, then they have to speak up and just tell the American people we can't get anything done on gun violence because Republicans are in the way. Put it on the obstructors. Put it on the people who always defend a piece of paper that was two hundred and twenty-five years old or whatever, back in a society that doesn't even exist today, the Second Amendment. There has to be rules and regulations for a contemporary society.
Translation: what's needed isn't that parched, faded Constitution, the one that nobody can actually read anymore, even if you crouch and squint over the copy in the National Archives. Nay, we needed a living, breathing Constitution, preferably numbering in the thousands of pages with all the new rules and regs, starting with strict limits on access to guns and public criticism of The Religion of Peace.
But until the Democrats become not silent and say that we can't do gun violence control in this country or any kind of gun measures because Republicans are in the way. Then maybe you might strike a nerve with the American people to get rid of some of these jackasses who live by an old document that is just totally outdated. We've changed the Constitution before! We've added to the Constitution but we simply cannot do anything about gun violence in America.
Later in the show, during a conversation with stalwart Obama apologist Jonathan Alter, came a moment of unintended hilarity from Schultz --
(audio at link)
Jonathan, politically, do the Democrats need to become more vocal about this in blaming Republicans? And, you know, it's old style politics, I know, and vilifying the other side. But the fact is the fact that we can't get anything done on gun violence in America, any measures at all, because of the Republicans. And I don't hear the Democrats laying the straight talk out there like that and putting the onus on these, on the majority in the House, and talking about the filibusters in the Senate. What do you -- of course if wouldn't be now because they have the majority. What about that?
D'oh! Back when they were the minority in the Senate, Republicans all too often resorted to that evil stall known the filibuster. Now that it's Dems in the minority, the filibuster has once again proven indispensable, thank you very much. Liberals hardly mention the filibuster these days, go figure. But when this liberal did, he promptly strayed from the script.
Ed whom?
Did Mr. Ed shoot his dog again?
The dumb just get dumber and then you end up with Ed Schultz.
“We’ve changed the Constitution before! We’ve added to the Constitution but we simply cannot do anything about gun violence in America.”
As America becomes more and more liberal it becomes more and more violent .
We have a liberal problem
Ed, buddy, the Constitution is what keeps people like us from shooting people like you. Learn it, live it, love it.
/johnny
Good post
So if it’s outdated, then so is the 1st amendment, and therefore no problem with Trump banning Muslims from entering the USA....right?
Learn something new everyday.
Memo To Ed Schultz:
Click the Pic
BTW, Ed! Move To Cuba!
You'll like it there!
Liberals are outdated.
This puke and his fat mouth can go live with the ChiComs if he loves that system so much.
Didn’t this guy used to do a comedy show on PMSNBC?
Ok Ed.
You say the constitution out of date, then you no longer have freedom of speech Ed. No more freedom of the press, and we can then institute a state religion Ed. No more rights to abortion because you have no right to privacy Ed.
What a complete idiot.
I think the Left realizes that gun control is the one issue that they can’t fool people on. You know how the Left always hides their true agenda...abortion is “reproductive rights”....homosexual ‘marriage’ is “same-sex marriage” or “marriage equality”...but when it comes to guns, there’s no way they can spin it or make it into a neat, non-threatening phrase. It is totally a losing issue for them and both their frustration and anger is out in the open.
Always good to hear from Johnny
“Parchment has traditionally been used instead of paper for important documents such as religious texts, public laws, indentures, and land records as it has always been considered a strong and stable material. The five pages of the U.S. Constitution as well as the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Articles of Confederation are written on parchment.”
Thanks. This is a good time to start beating that drum....
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