Abuse Of Constitutional Power Day

This past Sunday was Constitution Day. Now, up until two years ago, nobody knew that such a holiday existed. Fortunately for us, megalomaniacal senator Robert Byrd inserted a rider in a budget act declaring that since the Constitution is the number-one most important issue for students of all grades and programs to learn about, and that it is of further paramount importance to study it on the anniversary of the day it was signed, it is acceptable to breach the autonomy usually granted to states and local schools districts to set their own curricula and create a dangerous precedent by requiring that all institutions receiving federal funding, be they grade schools, medical schools, or vocational schools that advertise on daytime TV and have no pretense of a liberal arts program whatsoever, present educational programming pertaining to the Constitution on Constitution Day, under threat of forfeiture of governmental financial support.

So, to celebrate this momentous occasion, I hereby invoke my First Amendment rights to criticize Byrd's bill as an example of misguided egotistical stupidity. Hello Carrot, meet Mr. Stick.