The ultimate Progressive Lie

I just saw a video of what can only be called the ultimate progrssive lie. Ezra Klein was being interviewed on MSNBC and was asked about the plan by the House GOP to read the Constitution at the start of the next session of Congress. Klein called it a gimmick, which is a fair comment. Then Klein went on to say that because the Constitution is over 100 years old, it is written in language that is confusing and no one really understands what it means. Wow! That is an unbelievable lie.

Let's look at the document: Article 1 Section 1 is where we start. It reads: "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives."

Wow, is that confusing or wht? Imagine, someone reading this would have to figure out after years of study that the US legislature will have two house: the Senate and the House of Representative.

If you get through all that confusion, you come to the next section Article 1, Section 2 which reads:

"The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature."

Again there is a massive question as to what does this mean? I personally have spent years trying to figure this one out and have concluded that members of the House are elected every two years and those who get to vote for house members need have the same qualifications as those in a state who get to vote for the state legislature (in other words, registered voters.) No wonder Klein is confused.

This section continues "No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and whoshall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen."

So, in order to be a member of the House, you need to be 25 years old, a citizen for at least 7 years and live in the state from which you are chosen.

I am not going to continue on with the exercise. I think you all get the picture. The constitution is clear and not confusing. Klein is just a blatant liar who wants to claim that there is confusion about the meaning of the constitution so that he can justify the acts by the federal government that exceed the powers given to it by the constitution. Indeed, the biggest problem faced by those like Klein who try to use propaganda to distort the constitution and its clear meaning is that the language is not confusing. It has a plain meaning and the liberal liars are stuck with it.

One last point is necessary here. for the last two hundred years, the Supreme Court has interpreted the meaning of the Constitution in hundreds of cases. If there were any question about the meaning of the document, it has or will be answered by the Court. The truth is that nothing I have said is unknown to Klein. He should and does know better. He would do well to cut back on his propaganda.