GOP turns out to protest free speech at South Kingstown High
The Narragansett Times has the scoop this week on Republicans in South Kingston whining about a recent speech given at the high school by Dr. John Nirenberg, a Vermont resident who is walking from Boston to Washington, D.C. to encourage Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney for abusing the Constitution and blindly misleading the country into war.
Both the current and previous local GOP chairs showed up at the last school committee meeting to complain that their children had been subjected to the left-leaning speech and were asked if they wanted to sign Nirenberg’s petition demanding impeachment. Jim Cavanaugh, the former GOP chair, was so peeved he had this to say:
“It’s well I’m not armed. If I find my granddaughter signed that petition, the next time I see you will be in court and I will sue your butts.”
It’s well he’s not armed? You can only imagine what dinner was like in his house that night. “You sign that petition? That’s it, I’m getting my .45!”
Anyway, here’s the man that stirred up all the controversy, in his own words:
I am not an activist. The defense of the Constitution isn’t ideological. I march because it is essential to stand up to this shame. I march also because I am fortunate enough to do so. I march for everyone uncomfortable with movements, organizers and radicals, but who understand the dire straights we’re in. This is about saving our Constitution. This is about restoring the promise of America. This is about doing what I can as a citizen.
It should be noted that Democrats in both the House and Senate have kept their promise to push an agenda that will get us out of Iraq and move the country forward, but unfortunately, they’ve have been rebuffed time and time again by obstructionist Republicans who remain hell-bent on ignoring the overwhelming majority of Americans who want this war brought to an end.
This year Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, R-Miss., told the congressional newspaper Roll Call, “The strategy of being obstructionist can work or fail … and so far it’s worked for us.”