New White House visitor center is not right-wing enough for the Heritage Foundation

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from the American Family Assn's OneNewsNow:



Does visitor center misrepresent American history?
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow - 12/4/2008 8:00:00 AM


A constitutional scholar says the new Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, DC, is an extremely biased and historically inaccurate exhibit that "twists and distorts" the Constitution.

The new $621 million Capitol Visitor Center features an exhibition hall that is dominated by a very large marble wall called "The Wall of Aspirations." Dr. Matthew Spalding of The Heritage Foundation says the exhibit is not about the Constitution's limits on powers delegated to the government, but instead lists aspirations such as unity, freedom, common defense, knowledge, exploration, and general welfare, and then points back to where they are found in the Constitution.

Spalding, director of the Simon Center for American Studies at Heritage, notes those words all appear in the Constitution, but argues they were taken out of context and used to justify much larger activities by Congress.

"The job of Congress, according to the exhibit, is to achieve these aspirations. So the old notion that says Article 1, Section 8 lists the powers that Congress has -- these are the things that Congress can do. (But) that old notion is set aside," he contends. "In its place we have this kind of open-ended 'aspirations' which Congress is going to define and achieve. And to get there, they do very selective quoting and...mangle many phrases in the Constitution to get them where they want to go."

The new Visitor Center project was overseen by the Capitol Preservation Commission, which mostly consists of elected officials like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Spalding says it is unclear who actually designed the exhibit and wrote the text for it, but he is advising people with complaints about the Visitor Center to contact the Architect of the Capitol, the officer charged with upkeep of the Center and its programs.

The underground 580,000-square-foot Visitor Center, which opened to the public this week, was completed three years behind schedule and almost $360 million over budget. It is approximately two-thirds the size of the entire Capitol itself.


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ideas.

at the Bush Crime Administration's view on the Constitution's limits on powers delegated to the government. Then come back to me. Otherwise STFU!

K&R

...and Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Robert Bennet (R-UT), and Wayne Allard (R-CO), as well as Reps. John Boehner (R-OH), Vernon Ehlers (R-MI), and Tom Latham (R-IA).

They'll say anything to scare their sheep, won't they?

and they didn't get it "right"..? Now WHOSE "fault" would that be?

It's the Capitol Visitor Center, not the White House Visitor Center.

OP title says White House, but story says Capitol VC. :shrug:

Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...

:shrug:

... to all the illegal shit they pulled when they were in power.

I can't wait for them to cry when all the creationist crap added to the visitor's center at the Grand Canyon is removed once and for all.

With Pelosi and Reid involved, I wouldn't be surprised.

To the point, though...

Funny how the Pukes run up a ten trillion dollar deficit, by looting the government and the people of this country blind, with one military, police-state billion dollar boondoggle after another, and one tax cut for the rich after another, capped by the Financial 9/11 they just pulled off, and then start yammering about the "limited" powers of Congress.

Time to bring back the public stockade for these people, and whack them with rotten fruit. Unfriggingbelievable jerkwads!