Free Speech or Flee Speech in the U.S. Senate?
Congress may have spent a month back home, but Senate leaders
obviously didn't learn anything while they were there. With just 10 days
left for legislative business, Harry Reid's chamber will have plenty of
voters to answer to about why their leaders didn't deal with the crises
at hand -- on the border, in the Middle East, and with the economy.
Instead, the party desperately trying to prove it can still be trusted
to lead the Senate is making the opposite case with dead-end proposals
like Sen. Tom Udall's (D-N.M.).Despite the more urgent things on the Senate's to-do-list, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) isn't giving up on his party's First Amendment rewrite, S.J. 19, and insists on wasting valuable time on a politically-driven stunt that tries to limit the accountability Congress has to voters. Under Sen. Udall's resolution, liberals are pushing to strip political speech out of the First Amendment and put it under a separate legislative box where Congress -- the objects of that speech -- can regulate it.
