Why the Senate is Wrong...

A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which
belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

~Harry Emerson Fosdick

"The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history."

-- Woodrow Wilson

These thirty-four senators have poured the lighter fluid, and lit the match for every terrorist, and enemy of the U.S. to desecrate her flag:

Arkansas: Pryor (D); California: Boxer (D); Connecticut: Dodd (D), Lieberman (D); Delaware: Biden (D), Carper (D); Hawaii: Akaka (D), Inouye (D); Illinois: Durbin (D), Obama (D); Iowa: Harkin (D); Kentucky: McConnell (R); Maryland: Mikulski (D), Sarbanes (D); Massachusetts: Kennedy (D), Kerry (D); Michigan: Levin (D); New Jersey: Lautenberg (D); New Mexico: Bingaman (D); New York: Clinton (D), Schumer (D); North Dakota: Conrad (D), Dorgan (D); Oregon: Wyden (D); Rhode Island: Chafee (R), Reed (D).
Utah: Bennett (R); Vermont: Jeffords (I), Leahy (D); Washington: Cantwell (D), Murray (D); West Virginia: Byrd (D); Wisconsin: Feingold (D), Kohl (D).