Ha! That's awesome.

What this 10th amendment thing?

Researching "this Constitution thing..." is going to take the Democrats a lot longer than just this coming week.

That document is foreign to the Party.

Ooh -- that would be perfect.

I hope ScrappleFace has readers in the White House.

Excellent piece. It's sad that it's even funny. M

This is great - boy do I wish it were true! :)

Funny...if only it were true.

The Democrats can read??? Lotsa luck!!!

Even if they could, it wouldn't make any difference. Its an hereditary thing. They are born with, and are happy in, their ignorance and are enherently unable to be swayed by facts.

Democrats' response: How can we promote the general welfare without the National Endowment for the Arts, which gives us feces-induced sculpture, or the PBS-NPR Industrial Complex? Oh, whatever will Bill Moyers and that Prarie Home twit do?!

The Democrats are whining as we speak, trying to figure out how can they fund all of these federal programs that give money to their rich friends that get them elected. What about welfare, and all those poor people who's ancestors were not treated nicely, and now deserve reparations.... they just don't know what to do anymore, and are now calling on the Supreme Court to overrule the President on the grounds that "this 'Constitution' thing is just plain unfair, and annoying to us." Also claiming that since their party leaders didn't sign the document, they are under no obligation to uphold it. The Republicans liked this idea so much that they have joined up with their former enemies and created a new party: the "Americans For Unity" Party (AFU). Meanwhile all the rest of us true Americans can now hold an election and put people in office that WE WANT.

Democrats can read, write, and speak. No, really. It's true. It's the comprehension of those written and spoken words that cause all the problems. Oh, and the seeming lack of the skills required to present a well reasoned (yeah, I know, they're Democrats), cogent argument without resorting to emotional devices and the rhetorical equivalent to limp iceberg lettuce.

Can Scott run for President on these issues? He could head the "ScrappleFace Constitutionals" party, with a hyena as the mascot (they may look like they're laughing, but they are vicious scavengers, pouncing on prey whether it is dead or alive).

But then he stumbled across the Necessary and Proper Clause, and the Commerce Clause.

Do you really want to get rid of FEMA? What about the NIH? CDC? The PTA? Wait, forget about that last one. What would happen to our markets with no SEC? Would confidence in banking have been restored with no FDIC?

We need the acronyms!! Limited, accountable govt is good, but libertarianism goes too far.

You actually expect this from Bush??!?! Do not hold your breath. He is just giving the Dems more ammo for a tax increase next year.

Let me see, Education Bill ($$), Agriculture Bill ($$), Steel Tariffs (cost us $$), AIDS in Africa ($$), Current Budget increases ($$$$$) etcÖ

shuddering in ecstasy

Joe G has it right.
We need the govt to protect us from other nations, yes. That's one thing we can't do ourselves. We also need the govt to protect us from each other, in disputes that can not be resolved on a personal level. That's where the federal judiciary comes in. We also need the govt to help us deal with nature, which we can't do on an individual basis, so we have CDC and FEMA...although their functions certainly could be tweaked.....
Welfare, though, and other social services are handled MUCH more effectively on a personal level and individual basis.
'Nuff said.

you guys are trying to engage "satire" with reason?

The Vietnam War, and the Russians in Afghanistan has proven that while you can fight and army, you cannot fight an armed population of civilians. If the democrats read the Second Amendment like they read the First we would all be required to own weapons of mass destruction.