{"id":6146,"date":"2011-09-18T20:08:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T11:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2011-09-18T20:08:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T11:08:43","slug":"strange-brew-the-constitution-according-to-the-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/strange-brew-the-constitution-according-to-the-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Brew: The Constitution According to the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am really going to enjoy popping targets as these hacks prop them up.<\/p>\n

At the risk of taking too seriously what appear to be political arguments dressed up as constitutional claims, Constitutional Accountability Center has launched a series of articles, here at Text & History, which examines claims made by the Tea Party and its most prominent allies about the Constitution and put them to the test against the Constitution\u2019s text and history. The series, entitled Strange Brew: The Constitution According to the Tea Party, draws upon the words of our nation\u2019s charter, constitutional debates and other legislative history, and the best constitutional scholarship available. The goal of the series is to ensure that, as Americans engage in conversations and debates about the Constitution, we are all on the same page about what our Constitution says and what it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

via Strange Brew: The Constitution According to the Tea Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“At the risk…”? \u00a0Really? It was a close decision, but you finally decided to aw shucks go ahead and engage? \u00a0I suppose we should feel flattered at the attention from this blow-up doll of an organization, but somehow–nope.<\/p>\n

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I am really going to enjoy popping targets as these hacks prop them up.<\/p>\n

At the risk of taking too seriously what appear to be political arguments dressed up as constitutional claims, Constitutional Accountability Center has launched a series of articles, here at Text & History, which examines claims made by the Tea Party and its most prominent allies about the Constitution and put them to the test against the Constitution\u2019s text and history. The series, entitled Strange Brew: The Constitution According to the Tea Party, draws upon the words of our nation\u2019s charter, constitutional debates and other legislative history, and the best constitutional scholarship available. The goal of the series is to ensure that, as Americans engage in conversations and debates about the Constitution, we are all … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}