Under whelmed

Today in the Congress of Wingnuts:

The bill, which was passed 247-173, would prohibit federal courts, including the Supreme Court, from hearing cases involving the pledge and its recitation and would prevent federal courts from striking the words "under God" from the pledge.

The legislation has little chance of advancing in the Senate this year, but it laid down another marker for politicians seeking to differentiate themselves from their election opponents on the volatile social issues of the day. Other "wedge" issues that have or could come up before the election include gay marriage and flag-burning.

The Supreme Court in June dismissed, on a technicality, a 2002 federal court decision that the religious reference made the pledge unconstitutional.

Rep. Todd Akin...R-Mo., the author of the amendment on legislation before the House Thursday, said the high court is likely to rule differently if it considers the substance of the case and "if we allow activist judges to start creating law and say that it is wrong to somehow allow schoolchildren to say 'under God' in the pledge."

In such a scenario, Akin said, Congress will have "emasculated the very heart of what America has always been about."

Shouldn't it be required that members of Congress be required to pass a test on basic Civics and U.S. History? Rep. Akin (to an ass) seems to not understand that the "heart of what America has always been about" has been the separation of powers and the establishment clause. This bill violates both. Moreover, "under God" was added to the pledge during the Eisenhower administration to more clearly differentiate ourselves from those godless Commies. It's is hardly what our "founders" would have wanted.

Ah, I love the smell of stupidity and fear-mongering in an election season.