Does the Constitution Have Any Binding Power?

Now that Republicans have a majority in Congress, they are pretending to be constitutionalists. In order to demonstrate this, they will theatrically read aloud the Constitution from the floor of the House next week. “And then they will require that every new bill contain a statement by the lawmaker who wrote it citing the constitutional authority to enact the proposed legislation,” reports The Washington Post.
Establishment Republicans, of course, have the same amount of contempt for the Constitution as establishment Democrats. As dedicated worshipers of state power over the individual, establishment Republicans and their ideological twins the establishment Democrats hate the founding principles of this country.
Conservatives regard civil liberties as coddling devices for criminals and terrorists. They see the First Amendment as a foolish protection for sedition. The conservative assault on the US Constitution is deeply entrenched. Today’s conservatives are so poorly informed that they cannot understand that to lose the Constitution is to lose the country. While so-called conservatives pay lip-service to the Constitution, so-called progressives actively trash it and cosign the founding document to irrelevance.
A columnist for the Washington Post says the Constitution has “no binding power on anything” and is confusing – for liberals and other advocates of state power over the individual – because it is over a hundred years old.
Nancy Pelosi and the formerly ruling Democrats also believe the Constitution is irrelevant. “Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?” a reporter for CNN asked Speaker Pelosi as Democrats prepared to shove Obamacare down the throats of the American people. Pelosi responded: “Are you serious? Are you serious?”
In August, Illinois Democrat Phil Hare told his constituents that he does not give a whit about the Constitution. “I don’t worry about the Constitution on this to be honest,” Hare said in response to a question about the constitutionality of Obamacare.
Hare also demonstrated his contemptible ignorance by saying that the Constitution guarantees each of us “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” In fact, that line is in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution.
We’ve now arrived at the point where a sitting Congressman can openly state that he doesn’t care what the Constitution says, a sentiment obviously held by a majority of members since Congress continues to putatively enact ‘laws’ in the utter absence of express constitutional text. For the establishment political class, the Constitution is completely irrelevant.
Even the soon to be leader of the House, John Boehner, is largely clueless about the Constitution. He, like Phil Hare, has mistakenly attributed a line from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. Obama did the same, but then he was reading from a teleprompter.
Good 'Ol George W. Bush was reported to have said, "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
Dismissive remarks about the Constitution are shared by a large number of politicos and other worshipers of state power in the District of Criminals. If the establishment political class is going to successfully strip us of our natural and god-given rights, they have to support the idea that the Constitution is irrelevant and nothing more than a quaint piece of goddamn paper.