As anyone who reads my posts know that I am always on the lookout for stuff about the US Constitution….because too many people use it without reading it….

Since so many conservatives like to stand on the Constitution in opposition to anything Democratic….I then like to find the stuff that dreams are made of to rebut some of their BS…….basically, what I enjoy doing is to show that the people that use the Constitution as a defense against anything political is hypocrisy…..why?….it is obvious that they have not read nor understood the very document that they have pledged to protect……

Once again it is a Republican that has done something that is unconstitutional…and this time it is a minor voice of the GOP…..Charles Boustany (R-LA)….you might recall this gentleman…he was the voice of the minority after the Obama address to the joint session of Congress….you remember…the speech where another Repub yelled out, “you lie!”…..

Sorry I digress…..recently there came a report of a situation that involved Boustany

As written in the Daily Kos:

Congressman Boustany once attempted to buy an English Title.  There was one small problem … it was a fraud (pdf alert).
http://www.dailykingfish.com/…Apparently, two con artists hoodwinked dumb wealthy Americans like Congressman Boustany into believeing they could buy an English title, which would give them all sorts of goodies like being called Lord Boustany and a seat to ride in the Queen Mum’s 100th Birthday celebration back in the mid-1990’s.

Most millionaires like Congressman Lord Boustany would let the money go. But not Congressman Lord Boustany. Noooo.

He filed a lawsuit that never went anywhere in Lafayette Parish, and it is available to the public.  Here is a link to all three pages of the complaint, but the most relevant one is page 2, which shows how much he paid for the Title – $18,500 – and lists both his name and that of his wife in the pleading, and why they are filing suit.
http://www.dailykingfish.com/…

There is one small problem with the thing if he had been successful in obtaining his title….that problem is in Article 1 Section 9, which reads:

No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.

No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State.

The key to it is the last paragraph of the Article……….”No Title of Nobility……or title of any kind whatever…..”

Now if Boustany had been successful he would have violated the Constitution….the very document that he has sworn to uphold……what a moron!

I post this to show that our “leaders” are idiots and at best have not read the document that they use frequently to oppose any issue…or maybe he thought that it would put him on the fast track to the Senate….after all it is our version of the House of Lords……