If Boehner and Pelosi had been in charge on July 4, 1776

It is July 4, 1776. You are in Philadelphia, a delegate to the Continental Congress, and are waiting for your leaders to agree on the wording for a document you and your fellow delegates pledged to sign two days ago when you voted to declare your new nation's independence.

You look to the front of the room and see that your leaders, John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi, are at it again. Boehner is insisting on inserting an anti-abortion provision into the document. Pelosi wants funding for birth control devices and is demanding that delegates sign the document without reading it.

At that moment, you realize you and your descendants will remain, forever, English subjects.

Happy Fourth of July, everyone. And come election day, November 6, remember what the signers of the Declaration advised us to do about the idiots who so spectacularly misrepresent us in Washington.

... That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundations on such principle and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

In other words, they said throw the bums out and start with a fresh slate.

That, after all, is the American way.