The Party of the modern day bureaucrat...you know, the unionized unproductive government worker!
Remember how The Left derided the thought of reciting the US Consitution before 112th Congress began work?
When the Republican House leadership decided to start the 112th Congress with a reading of the U.S. Constitution, the decision raised complaints in some quarters that it was little more than a political stunt. The New York Times even called it a “presumptuous and self-righteous act.”
That might be true, if you could be sure that elected officials actually know something about the Constitution. But it turns out that many don’t.
In fact, elected officials tend to know even less about key provisions of the Constitution than the general public.
Just how bad were the results?
Over half the bureaucrats gakked it:
Elected officials at many levels of government, not just the federal government, swear an oath to “uphold and protect” the U.S. Constitution.
But those elected officials who took the test scored an average 5 percentage points lower than the national average (49 percent vs. 54 percent), with ordinary citizens outscoring these elected officials on each constitutional question.
The country’s in the very best of hands.
This explains the UCLA education received by Bruin Ezra Klein and his confusion over what the US Constitution says.
Remember this:
The US Constituion is just too confusing.
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