Jon Kyl Has Best Take On Rand Paul's Comments On the Civil Rights Act (Plus My Take)

Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl — the No. 2 Republican in the Senate — said he watched Paul’s exchange with Maddow on Wednesday night and suggested that Paul should have avoided “engaging in a theoretical debate with her.” “I think the two of them were having a bit of good time having a debate like you had at 2 a.m. in the morning when you’re going to college, but it doesn’t have a lot to do with anything,” Kyl said.

I agree with that. I did seem sort of the thing you like to do in LAW SCHOOL class. Needless to say there are reason politicos give short answers.

I think this is the best take on this I have seen so far. See For the Record, I Would Have Voted for the Magna Carta (Also see the other links)

THE PROBLEM is the general public does not get the whole background Commerce Clause question involved. They don't get the endless discusssion certain folks like to have of what grant of Federal power could or should have been used to dismantle Jim Crow.

They don't get the history and the controversal interpretation of the Civil Right Amendments.


They don't get that by using the Commerce Clause that created all sort of later problems. Like the Commerce Clause basically being used now as the ability for Congress to do anything.

Now a good many of the people that are saying racist realize what the issues are and the whole background to this. Yet they are playing off people's ignorance of whats at play.

Rand in a sense fell into this. Everyone says they want interesting debates but in the end the soundbite kills. That is just the reality. Paul just needs to stay away from the 2 A.M. Late Night like discussions.