The Framers created a limited government, thus ensuring individuals would have the opportunity to become all that their talents and persistence would allow. The left has put aside the original Constitution in favor of a "living document" that they believe allows them to do whatever they want and demand more tax dollars with which to do it.

An old saw has it that the squeamish shouldn't watch either sausage or law being made. May I add journalism?

SEATTLE — Conservatives here, a droll minority, say that under this city's quota system, when a conservative enters the city, one already here is required to leave. They also say Washington is actually two states: There is what you can see from atop this city's Space Needle — meaning, this liberal city — and there is everything else, extending to the Oregon, Idaho and Canadian borders.