Effort to outlaw flag burning fails in Senate
That link is Reuter’s headline, not mine. I know it was about a Constitutional Amendment, not a law. Oy vey!
We owe a debt of gratitude to those who voted against this abomination, and a vote for the opponents of those who voted for it. As Leonard Pitts Jr. referred to it, misplaced patriotism on display has not changed anything. At best, it stirred up their conservative base, and gave the Republicans a talking point for the mid-term elections. It appears clear to me that this is all it was ever about.
As the Associated Press story put it:
Winning isn’t the only goal for those measures or other social policy proposals congressional Republicans will bring up this year in an effort to energize their base of voters.
House Republicans intend to hold votes this summer and fall touching on abortion, guns, religion and other priority issues for social conservatives, part of an attempt to improve the party’s prospects in the midterm elections.
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