Did you know that Monday, Sept. 18th is Constitution Day?

[Pachamama]

Actually, the day is Sept. 17th, but the national celebration throughout schools and government is designated this year as Sept. 18th because the 17th falls on a Sunday.

Sept. 17th 1787 was when the constitution was finalized by the delegates and signed it in Philadelphia. The individual states ratified it later - Delaware if you recall was the first state.

Today on Keith Olberman, Constitutional Scholar and Law Professor Jonathan Turley was trying to definitely point out the irony of the active push for legalizing torture and changing the definition of common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions that this administration was doing is an assault on the Constitution and right around the same time we are supposed to be celebrating the Constitution.

The debate and vote on the floor of the Senate will be most likely on Monday, the actual Constitution Day or in the days following it before they break for another recess...

The Democrats must point this out and make it very clear that what the Bush Administration is doing is a deliberate assault on the Constitution.

Meanwhile, check out another irony...Look who is giving the recitation of the Pre-amble:

http://www.constitutionday.com/

Yes, Mr. Colin Powell...

GENERAL COLIN POWELL WILL LEAD THE NATIONWIDE ANNUAL TRADITIONAL RECITATION OF THE PREAMBLE TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2006 (11AM PST/ 2PM EST). .
THIS YEARS’ RECITATION WILL BE DEDICATED TO AND HONOR OUR MILITARY ALL AROUND THE WORLD. PLEASE JOIN US IN THIS SALUTE.

Finally - Another Irony: That it was previously celebrated as "Citizenship Day"....until George W. Bush signed it into law in 2004....

[MethuenProgressive]

1. Irony!!

[Pachamama]

3. Like the world of Orwell's 1984 - Black is White, War is Peace...

And when George W. Bush talks about our democracy and our Constitution, he means he want to crap all over it.

[Swamp Rat]

2. k&r

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[Pachamama]

4. Thanks for the early morning lovin'...

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[Pachamama]

5. Has anyone noticed that this Administration has a habit of announcing

completely opposing policies on days signifying some event? For example, when the Bush Administration announced on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade some policy opposing reproductive rights or on Martin Luther King Day when it announced that it was entering into the legal argument against affirmative action (the case involving the University of Michigan and others admissions policies).

I know there are other examples, but this re-occurring trend and pattern has always jumped out at me and there is no way its coincidental. It really leads me to believe that they purposely want to shove that in the very faces of those celebrating that day (ie. MLK's B-day, Roe v. Wade and in this case "Constitution Day").

They are laughing at all of us...