As Asiv Manvi and the DailyShow have shown, we have not seen the last episode of TeaPublicans revealing that their worst, most bitter, entrenched and recalcitrant Enemy - is their Own Mouth.
http://www.rawstory.com/...
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“If [Voting for Slavery is] what they wanted, I’d have to hold my nose, I’d have to bite my tongue and they’d probably have to hold a gun to my head, but yeah, if that’s what the citizens of the, if that’s what the constituency wants that elected me, that’s what they elected me for,” he said. “That’s what a republic is about.”
Now, Wheeler said to the Sun, “liberal operatives” are spreading the video in an effort to smear him.
The assemblyman was referring to a blog post by a conservative commentator named Chuck Muth, who asked during Wheeler’s candidacy, “(W)hat if those citizens decided they want to, say, bring back slavery? Hey, if that’s what the citizens want, right Jim?”
Wheeler told the audience of Republicans, “yeah I would.”
I understsand that Assemblyman Wheeler now feels he's being
smeared by Left Wing Blogs
(Heaven Forfend, what-ever will the Tea-Baggers Say?) - I mean he's merely offering a
Helpless Ragdog to the "Will of the People" no matter how ridiculous the request, even if I was only joking (haha) defense - but what I want to focus on isn't just that he said he would vote to bring back Slavery. It's
Why he said he would do it, because his actual reasoning - which in his defense shows not that he wants to make such a vote, but that
HE. THINKS. SUCH. A. VOTE. IS. UP. TO. HIM. OR. HIS. CONSTITUTENTS.
Because it's not. It's really really seriously fucking NOT up to them.
Not anymore.
This is the primary problem with Assemblyman Wheeler's "Logic".
http://usconstitution.net/...
1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
What this single sentence means is that is that it doesn't Fracking matter
What Assemblyman Wheeler and/or his TeaHadist Constitutants WANT - if it's S.L.A.V.E.R.Y. - they aren't getting it.
Period.
Finito.
End. Of. Line.
/Stop.
But I'm afraid I'm going to have to continue, because apparently when AssemblyHole Wheeler raised his right hand and took his oath of office to "Defend the Constitution" he hadn't bother to Bloody Well READ the thing. Let alone comprehend any of it's Amendments after the 2nd.
The only way that his Constituents could bring about any form a Slavery in the United States would be to Repeal the 13th Amendment. In the entire History of this nation we've only had one Amendment Repealed.
Anyone know which one that was?
Take your time... I'll wait.
(Plays Jeopardy Theme!)
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Time's UP. Yes, thank you - it was the 18th Amendment which implemented Alcohol Prohibition. When the result of Prohibition was Rampant and Flagrant Violation of the Laws as well as Racketing, Gang Violence and Mass Murders over the Then Illegal Alcohol Trade - it was repealed by Ratification of the 21st Amendment.
Let me deploy a visual aid from one of those recent new fangled inventions. The Motion Picture, herein we see an example of just how you begin the process of Amending the Constitution with a dramatization of how the 13th Amendment came to be in the first place.
And yet we have another of those picture shows released recently which displays exactly what it was that the U.S. Congress and the States fought over bitterly - before finally changing for the better.
Simply watching Actors Pretend to go though what Millions in the country endured under Slavery actually sent movie goers streaming out of the theater in Toronto.
The problem with Assemblyman Wheeler isn't that he endorsed voting to Re-Enact Slavery, it's that he doesn't seem to know he and the people of Nevada don't get to have that Vote unless it's after Congress has submitted a new Amendment to the Constitution. Any proposed new "Slavery Law" in Nevada or elsewhere would and should be Dead on Arrival at any State Assembly House.
His answer to the question shouldn't have been "Yeah, I would do it" - it should have been That's a Ridiculous Question" or "You can't HAVE that Vote without changing the Constitution, so the point is moot".
So, Assemblyman Wheeler may now feel properly victimized and set-up upon by "Mean, Vicious, Anti-Tea-Bagging, Liberal Bloggers". He may think it's "Unfair" for people to say his comments sound like those of a clueless ignorant bumpkin but IMO he only brought it down upon himself for failing to understand 8th Grade Civics and as a result sounding like ... A Clueless Ignorant Bumpkin.
Some people know that sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you're a fool than to actually open you mouth and confirm it. For Assemblyman Wheeler, it is now confirmed.
Vyan