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Dumbass Quote of the Week

By Ed Brayton

From Rush Limbaugh at CPAC:

We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. [Applause] We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life. [Applause] Liberty, Freedom. [Applause] And the pursuit of happiness. [Applause] Those of you watching at home may wonder why this is being applauded. We conservatives think all three are under assault.

Except, of course, that is not in the preamble to the Constitution, it's in the Declaration of Independence. And this is a man who cheered wildly as Bush subverted the liberty that document invokes with warrantless wiretaps and his failed attempts to destroy habeas corpus even for American citizens.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 03, 2009 (boomark / email).