Wait, what?
You have to hit rock bottom to be a professor of con law and actually advocate the abandonment of our founding document.
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
That must be something from The Onion, right? Nope.
It took me a while to realize this is not a parody. Op-ed touting "constitutional disobedience." http://t.co/gVyqtUwW
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) December 31, 2012
No really, this professor says we should ignore/abandon the Constitution: http://t.co/Vr9FGLnQ
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
In another case of self-parody, an op-ed published in The New York Times calls for the abandoning of The Constitution of the United States.
Con Law PROFESSOR says we should abandon "archaic" and "evil" Constitution: http://t.co/Vr9FGLnQ #tcot
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
I mean really, what was this professor smoking when he had his "revelation" that GASP: there should be limits on majoritarian oppression!
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
From the appalling op-ed, penned by Louis Michael Seidman, a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University, and titled “Let’s give up on the Constitution“:
But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.
It goes on to mock our “obsession” with The Constitution.
"Our obsession with the Constitution has saddled us with a dysfunctional political system" LOUIS MICHAEL SEIDMAN NYT
— Jennifer (@jenniferglynn) December 31, 2012
Silly rubes, “obsessed” with our founding document and the rights delineated therein! The evil and archaic provisions?
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285755282368376833
When you’ve lost Glenn Greenwald …
Oh wow… RT @ggreenwald Just in under the wire, a clear winner for dumbest and most incoherent NYT Op-ed of 2012: http://t.co/xBKYrrQ6
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
This. RT @KurtSchlichter When I agree with @ggreenwald over an editorial, you know the NYT is talking crazy. #caring
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
There is no clearer barometer than that, is there?
@Mattie96 beyond the pale… #FURIOUS
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
Indeed. The shake fisty is strong with this one, even though it shouldn’t be surprising.
@seanhackbarth you're right. He's taking American leftist legal theory to its eventual conclusion. The Constitution Be Damned
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
Leftists don't like the Constitution. So it's no wonder one of them now calls for America to "give up" on it in NYT. http://t.co/fwtjDoBw
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 31, 2012
https://twitter.com/RonMeyerJr/status/285772486006669312
Alas, liberals really are embracing the article. Seriously.
RT @ggreenwald There seems to be a "Progressives against the Bill of Rights" group rapidly emerging on Twitter: exciting!
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
@RBPundit #tcot check out @ggreenwald's timeline. Iglesias is nodding his head at the article.
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
That’s right, including the always inane Slate’s Matt Yglesias, who starts mumbling about “some bad stuff” in the Constitution. Stuff and things! And it’s super old or something.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/285753917533474817
And Glenn Greenwald is giving him, and others, the business.
Every once in a while, @ggreenwald argues with anti-speech/anti-constitution idiots on his side, and it's always glorious.
— KilroyFSU (@KilroyFSU) December 31, 2012
Here he goes.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285759111776317440
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285754653663174656
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285755282368376833
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285755374563389440
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285755557393072129
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285756007236378625
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285756559546515457
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285757332196032512
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285757406070325250
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285757879816970242
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285758182029160449
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285758629796257793
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285758801104228352
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285758858914316288
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285759380136288256
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285760149191282688
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285761894898335744
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285764349291794432
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285769652754345987
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285770642501017601
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/285772430352470020
Yes, some of the Constitutuion should remain, if the law professor deems them suitable. Anything that will aid sweet, sweet liberal policy? Still totally awesome and not “archaic.”
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/285789198638804992
The sane (hint: Not Yglesias) weigh in.
https://twitter.com/CuffyMeh/status/285787753881411585
@Steven_Swenson The school will claim academic freedom, which is legit. This op ed may have issues with his oath to the Bar.
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
@SARosado Seidman's implication is a constituion as an innovation in politics was a mistake.
— Sean Hackbarth (@seanhackbarth) December 31, 2012
The Constitution is flawed?! Then we should have an amendment process to fix…. Oh wait.
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
RT @stackiii Shorter Seidman op-ed: Health insurance is mandatory, but the Constitution is optional.
— Juegos y los gatos! (@ArtrexisLives) December 31, 2012
.@JeffreyGoldberg I wish. He isn't even calling for "Americans" to ignore the Constitution: just politicians he agrees with.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) December 31, 2012
Again, not all is evil and archaic. Just the stuff with which he doesn’t agree.
We're at the point where liberals say the constitution is optional but Obamacare is mandatory. #tcot #p2
— Razor (@hale_razor) December 31, 2012
https://twitter.com/MattHennessey/status/285763289902903298
Witness this academic's contempt for the Constitution & our founding fathers, blaming our current predicament on them. http://t.co/wmyu647S
— David Limbaugh (@DavidLimbaugh) December 31, 2012
Seidman is a product of the Harvard law school. http://t.co/M8HQ15ub
— Mike (@ThePantau) December 31, 2012
.@andyrNYT Thanks for the dump-the-Constitution op-ed. Nice to see what our opponents think. Still wonder why I'll never give up my guns?
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 31, 2012
Can't wait for the next NYT editorial claiming that "tenthers" are radicals. http://t.co/gVyqtUwW
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) December 31, 2012
https://twitter.com/LDoren/status/285738710937513984
Rules are rules, unless they keep leftists from getting what they want. http://t.co/gyRHlmec
— China is lying (@jtLOL) December 31, 2012
MT @paxdickinson: The Constitution is a speed bump on the road to our progressive collectivist schemes, it has to go. http://t.co/n69JKNgE
— Michael Fleischer (@MikeFleischer) December 31, 2012
We've gone from the NDAA to calling for the abolition of the Constitution in 366 days. Well done, "liberals."
— Mike (@ThePantau) December 31, 2012
Just wow. RT @hale_razor: Wow. NYT: Stop all the slavish devotion to the constitution when we should just blow it up. http://t.co/jHHAnF6B
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) December 31, 2012
Seidman seems basically irritated that House and Senate are preventing Obama from raising taxes. Would dump Constitution to get it done.
— Byron York (@ByronYork) December 31, 2012
Now to submit to the New York Times, an op-ed entitled, "Let's Give Up on Georgetown Constitutional Law Professor Louis Michael Seidman"
— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) December 31, 2012
Heh. Will the Fishwrap of Record listen? Doubtful.
NYT op-ed page runs hit pieces against black Republicans and now the Constitution. The poor Gray Lady has grown senile.
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) December 31, 2012
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