Grassley Protects Constitutional Turf
If Democrats don't know basic history, should they really be trying
to rewrite it? That's a question some people wondered yesterday after
Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) primetime
gaffe.
The Harvard-educated agitator, one of 42 liberals trying to scrap the
First Amendment, argued for his party's amendment by suggesting that the
author of it would have approved. "I think if Thomas Jefferson were
looking down, the author of the Bill of Rights, on what's being proposed
here, he'd agree with it."
Except that Thomas Jefferson didn't write the First Amendment --
James Madison did. We all make mistakes -- but Sen. Schumer's is far
bigger than forgetting a founding framer. It's supporting a measure that
would peel back 223 years of untouched law. Liberals have been backing
Sen. Tom Udall's (D-N.M.) amendment under the guise of election
accountability -- instead of what it really is: a naked power grab
designed to silence the opposition.
