Letter: Constitution being ignored by too many

Friday, July 7, 2006 | 7:23 a.m.

The genius of our Founding Fathers was in setting up our Constitution with checks and balances, thereby making sure that our Constitution would be protected even if at times we had presidents who were incompetent, ineffectual and substandard, as is the case now.

A country like America should be able to sustain itself for a few years during times when the people have made mistakes.

What the Founding Fathers didn't expect was a do-nothing Congress that would abdicate its oversight responsibilities in order to protect a president solely because he is of the same party.

Who would imagine that so many people in the Congress would have so little regard for their own positions and the Constitution that they would let themselves be made to look like such fools? Or that they would sit idly by while the Constitution is trampled?

Who would imagine that we would ever have so many people on the Supreme Court (Scalia, Thomas, Alito and Roberts) who have no regard for the Constitution?

I wonder how much longer the country and Constitution can withstand the onslaught of incompetence and disdain we are now seeing.

When the Constitution is a vague memory, blame the Congress that is sitting now. They are supposed to be the protectors of the Constitution. None of them are doing their jobs.

Mary Morgan, Henderson