Hypocrisy is not in the Constitution of the United States of America

Don't you hate it when people use the Constitution of the United States of America to justify hypocrisy? It's like using our grief over 911 as an excuse to go to war in Iraq. Once again the GOP Congress Critters are planning to use the Constitution of the United States as the next weapon of mass distraction . The GOP graciously extended the invitation to democrats to participate in the farce. David Waldham suggests Representative John Lewis (D. GA) should read Art. I, Sec. 2, cl. 3

Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

Or Section 9

The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.

So, how many jobs is reading the Constitution out loud going to create? How is reading the Constitution out loud going to reduce the deficit? Are republicans serious about governing or not? Or, are they just full of all hate, I mean hat, and no cattle slogans and gimmicks?

Speaking of slogans, gimmicks, and hypocrisy, how about ending the war on drugs and blacks? That would create jobs and reduce the deficit. John McWhorter makes the case for legalizing drugs and hits the nail on its head;

Of the countless reasons why this revival of this Prohibition that looks so quaint in Boardwalk Empire should be erased with all deliberate speed, one is that with no War on Drugs there would be, within one generation, no “black problem” in the United States. Poverty in general, yes. An education problem in general—probably. But the idea that black America had a particular crisis would rapidly become history, requiring explanation to young people. The end of the War on Drugs is, in fact, what all people genuinely concerned with black uplift should be focused on, which is why I am devoting my last TNR post of 2010 to the issue. The black malaise in the U.S. is currently like a card house; the Drug War is a single card which, if pulled out, would collapse the whole thing.

Imagine a black America without a war on Drugs;

If there were no way to sell drugs on the street at a markup, then young black men who drift into this route would instead have to get legal work. They would. Those insisting that they would not have about as much faith in human persistence and ingenuity as those who thought women past their five-year welfare cap would wind up freezing on sidewalk grates.

There would be a new black community in which all able-bodied men had legal work even in less well-off communities--i.e. what even poor black America was like before the '70s; this is no fantasy. Those who say that this could only happen with low-skill factory jobs available a bus ride away from all black neighborhoods would be, again, wrong. That explanation for black poverty is full of holes. Too many people of all colors of modest education manage to get by without taking a time machine to the 1940s, and after the War on Drugs black men would be no exception.

And in this new black community, young black men, much less likely to wind up in prison cells or caskets, would be a constant presence--and thus stay in the lives of their children. The black male community would no longer include a massive segment of underskilled, drug-addicted ex-cons churning in and out by the thousands year after year, and thus black boys growing up in these communities would not see this life as a norm. They would grow up to get jobs, period.

The War on Drugs feeds the media stereotype, and is why GrannyStandingforTruth asks Do all Whites view Blacks as Thugs, Pimps, and Hoes;

Even the so-called black tv stations projects images of young people who are wild, semi-naked gyrating females, gold teeth wearing, forty ounce drinking, marijuana smoking, bling bling wearing gangstas with no substance whatsoever. In the minds of white folks these are the only black people that exist in this world. Nevermind that you can also see a tantamount of this with whites as well on tv, the movies, etc. too. All you have to do is check out my sidebar "Tales of Two Hoods" which I haven't changed lately due to the economy to be able to grasp that concept.

GrannyStandingforTruth also notes there are no second chances for people of color

How can they change their life around if the door is constantly shut in their face for trying? Is our society instrumental in singling out and blocking second chances to people of color who want to do a 360 degree turn around and become productive members of our society? Our world is full of those who want to do just that, but they need to be given a chance to do so.

The GOP is using the reading out loud of the Constitution to justify repealing health care reform, DADT, and the extension of unemployment insurance. They will arm the uninformed with misinformation (aka their base) by asking "where in the constitution does it say the government has to provide health care, let LBGT's serve in the military and provide unemployment insurance blah, blah, blab, blab. It's another weapon of mass distraction from the real issues facing real people and the fact THEY HAVE NO PLAN.