"Co-equal" fiction arises again

At a news conference Tuesday in Washington, a group of prominent conservatives unveiled what they call the American Freedom Agenda.

Writer Richard Viguerie, one of the leaders of this effort, had this to say:

"One of the most important principles of conservatism is that our constitutional system of government is one of limited powers divided among three separate but co-equal branches.

"Just as a three-legged stool that has one leg longer than the other is unstable and could cause serious harm, our system of government will be unbalanced and potentially dangerous if all three branches of government are not co-equal."

Ah, but the three branches of the federal government are not co-equal, as The Rascal pointed out more than a month ago.