House Parliamentarian Vetoes Article 1

[groovedaddy]

Is this related to the impeachment debate? You bet it is!

House Parliamentarian Vetoes Article 1

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/11/post_6.html

House Parliamentarian Vetoes Article 1

Who'd a thunk that a little 'ole button would get freshman Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) in such a pickle?

Yarmuth made up a bunch of small lapel buttons last month bearing the seemingly innocuous words "Article 1" when he began a walking civics lesson to remind folks that Congress, not the president, is Numero Uno under the Constitution. He thought the buttons would be the perfect subliminal message to his colleagues and the entire viewing audience of C-SPAN. And he enlisted a slew of members to join him in wearing the pins.

But now, just as the emasculated legislators are beginning to feel somewhat empowered again, comes... the button police.

The House parliamentarian has told Yarmuth and his button battalion that they may no longer wear their Article 1 buttons during speeches on the House floor. People will just have to learn some other way that the Founding Fathers intended the elected officials under the dome, not inside the White House, to run the country.

According to the parliamentarian's office, the pins violate House rules that forbid the "wearing of badges by members to communicate a message." In other words, the buttons must come off.

And with the buttons, so come the gloves. A ticked-off Yarmuth whipped off a letter this week to House Parliamentarian John Sullivan challenging the ruling and asking close to (but maybe not quite) a million questions as to why his button has been banned.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/11/post_6.html

[DCKit]

1. How is wearing the articles of the Constitution NOT as patriotic as wearing the flag? nt

[BridgeTheGap]

2. No kidding. This just demonstrates why impeachment can't get

traction. Most of these jokers either don't grasp or don't care about Congress' role has spelled out in the Constitution. My estimation of freshman Congressman Yarmuth just went way up!

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Will the parliamentarian ban those stupid flag pins, meant to scream, "Look at me. I'm a super

patriot!"?

[groovedaddy]

4. I don't have a problem with the flag EXCEPT

when it is given precedent over the Constitution. Then the flag becomes something to HIDE BEHIND.