let's see:

Strike 1 - gay marriage amendment
Strike 2 - estate tax amendment
... Strike 3 coming down the pike, 33 percent deadenders!

then you're OUT!

It's been generous of the GOP to send issue after issue for Cantwell to demonstrate to the tunnel-vision left what the alternative is.

Generous and amusing. Is floride in drinking water the next issue?

i don't favor every move she makes, butcantwell did help defeat the estate tax repeal today. her work on energy issues has also been top-notch from a liberal perspective. nice snark, though.

Yes, the flag-burning amendment does raise First Amendment issues. That's why it's an amendment -- to overrule the First Amendment.

Isn't burning a flag the proper way to dispose of it? That's what I was taught in elementary school.

As I recall as a Voyager Scout (it was in Canada), you take the flag down, standing at attention, folding it correctly, and then burn it before it touches the ground, never let it become worn or faded.

I guess McGavick hates our Freedom. You'll take my lighter out of my cold dead hands! NOBODY messes with former Boy Scouts!

Can I get a constitutional amendment to keep people from flying their flag outdoors in all weathers and at night until it's a dirty, faded, tattered rag? Can I get an amendment allowing me to make a citizen's arrest of dingbats who put those stupid window flags on their cars as if they were diplomatic vehicles, and invariably end up with said flags lying in the gutter?

...I didn't think so.

I'm so glad Congress is finished with all the substantive business of governing the nation - they've resolved our problems with immigration, health care, environmental degradation, and The Forever War - so they can fritter away their time on inconsequential bullshit, aren't you?

I saw a guy the other day down near Ft. Lewis -- not on a military facility but near one; it might have been an RV lot -- take down a flag for the night in the rain and just wad it up in his hands as it came off the rope, then stride back into the building with a wadded-up, soaking flag in his hands. Patriot. He'll probably vote for the amendment if it comes to that.

Does anyone have any idea just how serious this protesters-burning-flags problem really is? I mean, what is it, once a year, tops? We're fortunate to live in such times when there are no other more pressing issues besides one lousy flag a year, so we have the luxury to AMEND THE FUCKING CONSTITUTION for this trivial offense.

Next up: a constitutional amendment barring the thinking of mean thoughts about a Republican.

I want an amendment so I can buy assault rifles for "freedom fighters" to um ... never mind.

how about a constitutional amendment to guarantee my right to order really strong espresso at any time of day or night without a prescription and the vendor can't ask me what I want with it?

What DO you want with it?

Which, the espresso? I was going to drink it, why, do I need to show you my papers and sing the National Anthem in Spanish like Bush did in 04? Step away from my latte, that's all I'm sayin.

Dude, she's willing to throw the left plenty of bones. They're called the sensible policy she supports 90% of the damn time. Like her opposition to the hate amendment. And to the Paris Hilton tax. Her near perfect support of abortion rights, and other choice issues. Geez.

incest father and daughter with mother and son!