Quote of the Day: Democrats & the Constitution

From George Neumayr on National Review:

...ignoring the Constitution as written is the de facto policy of the Democratic party. Hence the Democrats' endless babble about a “living Constitution,” which is just a euphemism for saying that they don’t particularly like the actual one and have no intention of honoring the Constitution the moment it frustrates their ideology and will.

The sheer willfulness of the Democrats makes them the least plausible defenders of the Constitution and the rule of law. Almost every browbeating question the Democrats asked of Sam Alito was designed to make him cry uncle and accept their “living Constitution.” They were testing him not for fidelity to the Constitution but infidelity to it. In effect they were asking him: Do you promise to disregard the Constitution as written and follow our will instead? The nonsensical monologues and hectoring questions about “stare decisis” were simply an attempt to extract from Alito a pledge to cement in place their activists’ rawly unconstitutional jurisprudence.

If the Founding Fathers wanted government by stare decisis, they wouldn’t have bothered to write a Constitution. The essential fraudulence of the Democrats’ stare-decisis claim is evident in their repudiation of the Constitution as itself a precedent worthy of respect.