I always get a kick out of reading the NY Times. The Grey Lady and her staff of erudite contributors have long been completely out of step with the American public, appearing to be an increasingly more radical left wing propaganda outfit, but this article takes the cake. Here Louis Michael Seidman, a constitutional law professor with Georgetown University, makes the case for doing away with the constitution. Quote Originally Posted by NYTimes AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.Thats right. The problem is the constitution. He carries on with his appeal to dictatorship: Consider, for example, the assertion by the Senate minority leader last week that the House could not take up a plan by Senate Democrats to extend tax cuts on households making $250,000 or less because the Constitution requires that revenue measures originate in the lower chamber. Why should anyone care? Why should a lame-duck House, 27 members of which were defeated for re-election, have a stranglehold on our economy? Why does a grotesquely malapportioned Senate get to decide the nation’s fate? Apparently Mr. Seidman has forgot that the congressional representatives in the House were elected by the people for a term of two years. Apparently he has also forgot that after the turn of the year, the same party and the same people will still control the House.

As I mentioned earlier, to read such idiotic drivel in the NY Times has become completely unsurprising, which is one of the many reasons Playboy Magazine has a wider readership, with harder hitting articles I dare say. What is much more concerning is that Georgetown is one of the top universities in the country and this idiot is a major contributor to the shaping of our nation's top minds. Like many professors, I can imagine Mr. Seidman runs his class like he recommends the country be run. Like an autocrat, issuing grades based not on performance but rather on perception of thought conformity.

He is truly a good fit for the NY Times, which like the Huff Po, reviews every last one of the comments posted on it's articles and letters to the editor for thought conformity. Non conforming thoughts are tokenized, or omitted altogether. Mr. Seidman's article was so over the top, the NY Times decided to do away with the comments section altogether.

Perhaps most troubling of all, an increasing number of uninformed Americans consume this crap and pay it credence based purely on the source, without ever considering the merit of what is being said.