They finally admit it: They don't care about the Constitution

Ladies and gentlemen, adults of all ages, the extreme right has just crossed a major frontier.

They've now reached the point where they no longer hide what they really think about the Constitution. They've finally become comfortable coming right out and saying what they really think.

There have been other public displays of constitutional contempt in recent years, but I don't remember any that were this public, and whose source was so unashamed about elaborating on their disgust at constitutional liberties. Marc Racicot and right-wing editorialists at the Harvard Crimson have nothing on this guy.

The culprit is some nobody who wrote a column recently for Louisiana State University's Daily Reveille. The title of the piece is..."Welfare drug testing bill warrants Fourth Amendment override." The article is about exactly that.

They really are infatuated with this issue, aren't they? It's just like how last year they were obsessed with the "Ground Zero mosque."

"Fourth Amendment override." Think about that for a moment. Think about what those words mean. That's batshit.

The column comes right out and says what other right-wingers haven't had the unmitigated temerity to say publicly yet: It says the Fourth Amendment is basically bunk, and that it just flat-out doesn't apply to anybody who gets government assistance. This dumb loser says welfare recipients "cannot expect to have full privacy rights."

Where does the Constitution say that, genius? If the Bill of Rights was intended to exclude an entire class of people, wouldn't it say so?

I guess we can expect such open scorn for the Constitution from somebody who writes columns praising Michele Bachmann.

"Fourth Amendment override." That's where the conservative movement is at in 2011. "Fourth Amendment override."

Happy Fourth of July.