A Gentleman’s view.

House Republicans will even provide for a reading of the Constitution in the House chamber on the second day of the next Congress. . . .

A GREAT idea. Maybe they’ll learn something.

How about adding a recitation of the preamble each time a congressman gets up to speak:

“We the People of the United States, in Order to:

1. form a more perfect Union,
2. establish Justice,
3. insure domestic Tranquility,
4. provide for the common defence,
5. promote the general Welfare, and
6. secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,

do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

That might help them remember WHAT they are there for, in addition to getting all caught up in the process.

There’s only one problem with the GOP’s new image makeover — time and time again, their actions betray their contempt for the Constitution.

Bachmann plans to host classes taught, not just by occasionally-correct Justice Scalia, but also by unhinged radicals such as Christian right crusader David Barton and 9/11 truther Andrew Napolitano. Barton has claimed that the entire federal highway system is unconstitutional, while Napolitano likes to write about how Social Security and the United States Census violate the Constitution when he isn’t busy speculating about whether 9/11 was an inside job.

Other GOP lawmakers have embraced a seemingly endless list of proposals to rewrite the Constitution into something barely recognizable. These range from incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s (R-VA) support for a bizarre proposal to create a new, incredibly cumbersome method to repeal federal laws, to more distressing proposals to strip people of their citizenship, enshrine discrimination into the Constitution, eliminate all federal education programs, and even repeal the New Deal and the Civil Rights era…

10. Passing Credit Card Reform(CARD Act)
Protects Americans from unfair and misleading credit card practices

9. Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
Ensures that all workers in America are paid what they deserve, regardless of race, gender, or age

8. Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan
President Obama nominated and the Senate confirmed Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court

7. Student Loan Reform
Helps make college more affordable for students and families

6. Wall Street Reform
Holds Wall Street accountable, ends “too big to fail” bailouts, and enacts the strongest consumer protections in history

5. The New START Treaty
Keeps America safe and strengthens our global leadership on nuclear weapons issues

4. ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal
Ends the discriminatory policy preventing gays and lesbians from serving in America’s armed forces

3. Ending combat operations in Iraq
Effectively ends Operation Iraqi Freedom and withdraws 100,000 troops

2. The Recovery Act
Saves and creates millions of jobs, investing unprecedented resources in building a new foundation for our country, and preventing a second Great Depression

1. The Affordable Care Act
Reforms our country’s broken health care system by holding insurance companies accountable, lowering costs, ensuring greater choice, and improving the quality of care for all Americans.