Bunning supports Diaper Dave's flag amendment

Almost every year of the past 20 years, the exact same thing has happened.

Some demagogue in Congress always gets the brilliant idea that if they introduce a constitutional amendment to outlaw desecrating the flag, then people will start listening to them. Inevitably, the amendment fails to pass. In the meantime, any lawmaker who dares to oppose the amendment gets raked through cess - rivulet by awful rivulet.

This year's hothead is none other than Louisiana's right-wing Sen. David Vitter. Vitter's flag amendment is backed by Kentucky's very own Sen. Jim Bunning (pictured here).

Talk about futile! If this amendment didn't pass under the Congresses of 1995 through 2006, which were the most conservative in the country's history, it's unlikely to pass now.

The minimum wage is lagging, corporate power is out of control, and America may be having its worst flu epidemic in 20 years - yet Diaper Dave and Jim Bunning are trying to pass an amendment to fight all 3 flag burnings that might occur in this century?

Courts have ruled that desecrating a flag is protected under the First Amendment (no matter how offensive it is). And no portion of the Bill of Rights has ever been specifically repealed by a later amendment.

Let's keep it that way. Look up 'entrenched clause' on Wikipedia. I think we may have to pass a constitutional amendment to entrench the Bill of Rights - which would mean that nothing in the Bill of Rights could be repealed by new amendments. Ask yourself this: Is there ever any justification for repealing any part of the Bill of Rights? I think not.

If Vitter and Bunning are going to make exceptions to the Bill of Rights, then we're no longer on a slippery slope. We're at the bottom of it.

(Source: http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/AB/20090507/NEWS0103/905080325/Bunning+backs+flag+amendment)