Congress and much of our government operates like a stealth bomber, destroying rights we assume to be protected by the U.S. Constitution

Our Stealth Congress

By Alan Caruba
Thursday, December 9, 2010

We are living in an era in which our Congress and much of our government operates like a stealth bomber, destroying rights we assume to be protected by the U.S. Constitution and otherwise encumbering an ailing economy in ways known to make it worse.

Take, for example, the House passage yesterday of the Dream Act, an end-run around the widespread opposition to any form of amnesty for the problem of illegal immigration. While 38 Democrats joined Republicans to vote no on the measure, eight Republicans “crossed the aisleâ€