Quote of the Week: Janice Rogers Brown.

But first, please peruse this post from Gunner at No Quarters, and study that last picture very closely.

Anyway, on to the quote:

I have argued that collectivism was (and is) fundamentally incompatible with the vision that undergirded this country’s founding. The New Deal, however, inoculated the federal Constitution with a kind of underground collectivist mentality. The Constitution itself was transmuted into a significantly different document...1937...marks the triumph of our own socialist revolution...Politically, the belief in human perfectibility is another way of asserting that differences between the few and the many can, over time, be erased. That creed is a critical philosophical proposition underlying the New Deal. What is extraordinary is the way that thesis infiltrated and effected American constitutionalism over the next three-quarters of a century. Its effect was not simply to repudiate, both philosophically and in legal doctrine, the framers’ conception of humanity, but to cut away the very ground on which the Constitution rests... In the New Deal/Great Society era, a rule that was the polar opposite of the classical era of American law reigned.

Man, would I like to have the unabridged text of that speech! There's lots more over at the People for the (un)American Way site. I figure they parsed her quotes to make them as "damning" as they could, but I have to admit I liked them all.

More on Ms. Brown tomorrow, I hope.