A friend of mine signs her emails with a Barbara Jordan quote from the Watergate hearings that chokes me up every time I read it – and in fact it was almost the quote at the top of the page. (I tried it both ways about five times before settling on the Ben Franklin when I was getting this place move-in ready.)
My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
I, too, believe fervently in the Constitution. It is the only thing outside my family worth fighting and dying for.
But the Constitution only works because it is built on a foundation of Justice.
If Justice is undermined, if it becomes just a word, just a quaint and archaic concept that just doesn’t work anymore because "9/11 changed everything" we need to just pack it in because the grand experiment that was
That is why everyone should be up in arms about the US Attorney firings. Politically motivated firings of U.S. Attorneys undermine Justice. It removes the lynchpin of our Republic.
This is the kind of thing that people should set their hair on fire about. Not gay marriage or any other social issue that has no business being legislated anyway.
The derailing of Justice with the intent of furthering the interest of one political party is tantamount to treason.
Display the appropriate level of outrage already.
