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Monday, August 1. 2005

A Bozo in Connecticut

I can't believe my Senator referred to "the privacy clause in the Constitution." Surely he is referring not to a clause, but to the aura of an emanation of a penumbra which decided Roe v. Wade. What a dope. Yes, I mean Dodd, or, as we call him here, Sen. Dodo. On Patterico. This jerk would never had been elected if he didn't have the same last name as his Dad, Sen. Tom Dodd, who was a stand-up, good guy. It confused us country bumpkins, and we mistakenly elected the brat kid. Well, the sinecure is his until he decides to retire, which he won't as long as he can pick up cuties in the Georgetown bars. But he is getting a bit long in the tooth for that, isn't he?

Posted by The Barrister in Politics at 11:49 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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What disturbs me about this whole line of thought is that it seems to say that the Constitution gives rights to people when it does not. It only gives rights and responsibilities to government, and recognizes and protects some of the rights people have as a result of simply being born.

There's no right to privacy enumerated in the Constitution because the Constitution doesn't give rights to anything.
#1 Juan Paxety (Link) on 2005-08-01 14:23 (Reply)
I guess the whole idea was to limit the power of the central govt, with the assumption that freedom and human rights come from God, not man and not govt. Several states refused to sign the thing, tho, until the Bill of Rights was added, just to make it all crystal clear.
#1.1 bird dog on 2005-08-02 08:12 (Reply)
Even the Bill of Rights does not purport to give rights to individuals. It, again, limits Congress and the other branches of government.
#2 Juan Paxety (Link) on 2005-08-02 10:42 (Reply)

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