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Are you watching the reading of the Constitution on the House floor?

I just turned on C-SPAN and hit the 2d Amendment right on the nose. Do I have some kind of right-wing instinct?

Here, you can watch on the internet. Hurry! They're up to the 6th Amendment.

UPDATE: The 10th Amendment won a spatter of applause.

UPDATE 2: John Lewis read the 13th Amendment ? abolishing slavery ? and that got a big round of applause. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment ? read by Democrat Mel Watt ? also got some healthy applause.

UPDATE 3: Silence at the 17th Amendment.

UPDATE 4: The word "sex" is in the Constitution.

UPDATE 5: You have one sentence to read: How can you mispronounce one of the words? Compulsatory, etc. etc.

UPDATE 6: Applause... either for the document as a whole, now completely read, or for the idea that they shouldn't give themselves a raise, which was the last thing read.

UPDATE 7: I missed the birther outburst. Did it really happen?

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) tweeted from the House floor that a "birther" had interrupted the Constitution reading that's been taking place.

Yes, it happened...



... from the gallery. It wasn't another Joe Wilson "You lie"-type situation.

UPDATE 8: The heckler ? who has been arrested ? yelled "Except Obama, except Obama. Help us Jesus." Jesus? Why drag in Jesus?

Full post as published by Althouse on January 06, 2011 (boomark / email).