The ‘Privacy Clause’?

Posted by: ST on July 31, 2005 at 6:58 pm

Patterico links up to an interview with Senators Christopher Dodd (D-Conn) and Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) from Fox News, as posted at the Washington Post’s blog.  Seems Senator Dodd has found a new clause in the Constitution (emphasis added by me):

The open-ended question for us clearly is what are his views about some of the basic values, the equal protection clause, the privacy clause of the Constitution. These are things that members of the Congress through their — and their representatives want to know about during the confirmation process.

Interesting.  Maybe next he’ll be talking about the Santa Claus of the Constitution.

In all seriousness, statements like this are maddening because, of course, there is no such "clause" in the Constitution and anyone who hears him who doesn’t know that will simply nod their heads and say "yeah! We need to do that."  One has to wonder whether this was deliberate on the part of Sen. Dodd or if he really is that ignorant of what the laws of our land really are.  

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    1. Jim says:

      Sen McConnell is R-Ky

    2. Jim says:

      got me :)

    3. Thanks for the correction Jim. That’s what I get for typing so fast :)

      Is this the same Jim who used to comment here a while back?

    4. Ryan says:

      First time visiting this site – I like it!

    5. Ryan says:

      You’re welcome! Keep up the good work! I need some sort of escape while living here in the People’s Republic of California.

    6. Jim says:

      No, new Jim. Like the site; will be back.

      Jim2

    7. Cool – thanks, Jim2 ;)

    8. Sabba Hillel says:

      Actually, you will not see a Democrat reference to Santa Claus because they are trying to avoid any Sanity Clause in Supreme Court decisions.

    9. LOL! Isn’t that the truth :grin:

    10. Jimmr says:

      But I thought that Marx (Groucho, not Karl) taught us that there was no such thing as a Sanity Clause. Really great blog, by the way.

    11. I know I personally have never heard of the Sanity Clause … the Insanity one, yeah :grin:

    12. Seth says:

      The Dems have been rewriting the Constitution on an impromptu basis for years in the course of their speeches and interviews. It’s the Utopian angle:
      This is how I believe it would be in a perfect world, therefore this is how it is.”