Rising Hegemon
The New Hampshire GOP, last seen demanding the release of already released birth certificates, has turned to demanding all laws be based not on the Constitution, but Magna Carta.
Leave it to Republicans to demand we follow a document that in essence demanded the government leave the great lords alone.
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No longer need we ask for which century the GOP bell tolls, it tolls for the 13th and feudal European freedom!
Serfs, get back to work! And don't forget to lick the lord's boots on the way out of the gate.
Three cheers for GOP Liberty!
(For a while now, when considering where they wanted to "take their country back" to, I've been leaning toward the 11th-13th centuries. Mystery solved.)
Is there a link problem?
Or is my hamster just getting too old?
PPSC - There's a link problem. I Googled New Hampshire GOP and Magna Carta.
Perhaps they were just a little mistaken. I think the lawmakers want legislation to reference quotes from The Lynda Carter. We could all use a little more Wonder Woman!
Link to Think Progress:
Think Progress
...if I did it right.
Best comment is from New Hampshire Dem Ray Buckley:
“I appreciate all the hard work the Republican legislators are putting into the effort to make them look like extremists. Saves us the trouble.”
“I do not use foreign law in the interpretation of the United States Constitution.” –Antonin “Vaffanculo” Scalia, 13 January 2005.
And Reich-wing outrage from conservatives, in 5...4...3...2..
What a relief to find out that the link was bad, and my hamster is still alive and well!
Anyway! The three loonies who sponsored this bill must be from the left wing of the GOP.
Because the right wing would propose basing all future NH legislation upon the Book of Leviticus.
(That said, I have to admit I might personally support such a bill if it meant that NH residents would be eligible to stone Newt Gingrich for adultery!)
at least they remember the magna carter. considering their redacted version of history.
Since the Magna Carta, among other things, instituted the legal principle of habeas corpus, I guess this means that New Hampshire Repugs are all very much against the legal framework enabling indefinite detention and want Guantanamo and Bagram prisons closed.
Okay, yes, I'm just being silly.
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