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" I have spent an hour now trying to figure out how the headline explaining what Mitch McConnell was doing here was unfair to the turtleish Senate minority leader: Mitch McConnell: We Must Rewrite The Constitution Because &amp;#039;Elections&amp;#039; Haven&amp;#039;t &amp;#039;Worked&amp;#039; I finally gave up. This is precisely what McConnell is arguing here, and on behalf of the stupidest idea in the history of American politics, too. He is announcing, quite seriously, that elections that do not accord with his wishes are simply illegitimate. There is now no point in trying to distinguish between the fringes of the Republican base, and the party&amp;#039;s respectable leadership in Washington. American conservatism has become lawless, and its political vehicle has demonstrated itself to be little more than front for well-tailored gangsterism. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve tried elections. Nothing has worked. Why isn&amp;#039;t this all over the news? The Minority Leader of the United States Senate has declared himself to be an enemy of democracy. More to the point, he&amp;#039;s committed his party to it. Why isn&amp;#039;t every Republican candidate \u2014 and every one of them is committed to a Balanced Budget Amendment, the stupidest idea in the history of American politics \u2014 being asked whether or not elections &amp;quot;work&amp;quot;? Where are the serious conservative intellectuals? Why doesn&amp;#039;t one of them denounce McConnell, at least for the sheer artlessness of what he said?  Why is Mitch McConnell not cast into the outer darkness? Why is he not as marginal a political figure as, say, Dennis Kucinich is? Kucinich never in his life said anything as clearly un-American as what McConnell said, and McConnell said it on the floor of the Senate in his capacity as leader of the Republican caucus. The Iowa Caucuses are next Tuesday. There are currently about nine million reporters traipsing around the cornfields, trying to divine who will run for president on behalf of a party whose congressional leadership no longer believes the American people capable of governing themselves. And people say Ron Paul is nuts. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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