Sunday Sermon
Molly Ivins:
It is one of the most famous sentences in all of American rhetoric: “My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total.” But what catches the eye today is the sentence that followed that famous declaration, the sentence that makes one so ashamed for Al Gonzales. Barbara Jordan’s great, deep voice brought the impeachment hearings against Richard Nixon to an awed silence when she vowed, “And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.”
Thirty years ago, this state could produce Barbara Jordan — and now we send that pathetic pipsqueak Al Gonzales. Enough to provoke a wailing cry of “O tempera, O mores!” even from the depths of Lubbock.
Can I get an AMEN?
