As an added comment to your post, I will admit to being totally floored and perhaps as angry as I can remember when on his first day in office President Carter pardoned the draft dodgers of the Viet Nam War. But then I was a young Army Captain with, as some might still say, much more guts than brains.

What he did with one stroke of his pen, the preponderance of those making up our national defense were demoralized and tens of thousands more now questioned their time of service.

But that single act that literally took years to overcome in terms of morale of those on active duty. For those of my generation who accepted their obligation and returned, for the family members and loved ones who came home in a box, for those who came back traumatized both physically and mentally, and for those still there that stigma remains.

That mere stroke of a pen took more courage than this old warrior has yet to witness because he simply was right and history is the proof.

Just my two cents worth.

Civility, that's the stuff. May the blessings of our Creator be on us all.

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Vote the issues, vote the person, stop the partisan nonsense.

About the conservatives wanting to run the country according to the Constitution as written while the liberals want to change the rules (aka The Constitution).

Without even mentioning this administration's assault on the Constitution, let us look back over the past few years at some proposed Constitutional amendments and see if we can possibly somehow determine which party in Congress proposed them:

1. Amendment to ensure reproductive rights of women
2. Amendment to force the Congress and President to agree to a balanced budget, with overspending allowed only in the case of a three-fifths vote of Congress
3. Amendment to allow non-natural born citizens to become President if they have been a citizen for 20 years
4. Amendment to make the filibuster in the Senate a part of the Constitution
5. Amendment to clarify eminent domain, specifically that no takings can be transferred to a private person except for transportation projects
6. Amendment to allow the President to reduce any Congressional appropriation, or to disapprove of same (akin to a line-item veto)
7. Amendment to guarantee the right to use the word "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and the national motto
8. Amendment to restrict marriage in all states to be between a man and a woman
9. Amendment to limit pardons granted between October 1 and January 21 of any presidential election year
10. Amendment to require a balanced budget without use of Social Security Trust Fund monies
11. Amendment to provide a new method for proposing amendments to the Constitution, where two-thirds of all state legislatures could start the process
12. Amendment to declare that life begins at conception and that the 5th and 14th amendments apply to unborn children
13. Amendment to prohibit courts from instructing any state or lower government to levy or raise taxes
14. Amendment to force a national referendum for any deficit spending
15. Amendment to prohibit the early release of convicted criminals
16. Amendment to clarify that the Constitution neither prohibits nor requires school prayer
17. Amendment to force a two-thirds vote for any bill that raises taxes
18. Amendment to repeal the 16th Amendment and specifically prohibit an income tax
19. Amendment to provide for removal of any officer of the U.S. convicted of a felony
20. Amendment to remove automatic citizenship of children born in the U.S. to non-resident parents
21. Amendment to force a three-fifths vote for any bill that raises taxes
22. Amendment to bar imposition on the States of unfunded federal mandates
23. Amendment to prohibit abortion
24. Amendment to disallow the desecration of the U.S. Flag
25. Amendment to prohibit involuntary busing of students
26. Amendment to make English the official language of the United States
27. Amendment to grant protections to unborn children
28. Amendment to provide for "moments of silence" in public schools

Which party do you suppose proposed every one of these amendments?

but I don't recall the "liberals" as you call them, proposing any amendments to the Constitution recently. In fact the last amendment I recall is the "sanctity of marriage" amendment that, rightfully, failed miserably and that was proposed by those who revere the Constitution "as written". Keep the faith.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

wanted to change the Constitution as well, to be in line with the Bible.

hmmmmm, so Mudcat, it's really the Republican's who respect the Constitution, as written?

I think not.