US Senator Grassley: That's what Progressives think...hate the Constitution - Granite Grok

US Senator Grassley: That’s what Progressives think…hate the Constitution

And the Roosevelts and Obama are not the only ones; from my Progressives and the Proper Role of Government post, let me remind you that we can see the disdain for it rolling down their chins:

  • NH State Rep. Debra DeSimone (R): The Constitution is a guideline”
  • NH State Rep. Sandra Keans (R, now D): “I don’t try to justify anything by the Constitution, it’s not my job and I don’t want to do it”.

  • NH State Rep. Susan Almy (D): “Well, you don’t get to decide what is Constitutional and I don’t get to decide what is Constitutional, the judiciary decides what is Constitutional”.
  • Thomas Russell (Equal Opportunity Officer, Cameron University)  regarding the nation’s Bill of Rights: “I like those amendments to the Constitution. They’re foundations to democracy. But that’s all they are, foundations.”

And of course, the biggest blatant move away from the Constitution:

President Obama: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.

The Constitution is the fulfilling of the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence.  Which means that all of those above (and pretty much all of the rest of the quotes there) that violate the Spirit of both:

… We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness [which originally was “the pursuit of Property  -Skip]That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…

(H/T: The Blaze)

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