I think that Harry Reid expressed it fully about this project:

"My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway," said Reid in his remarks. "In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol."

He knew what he was saying and he said it anyway without fear of retribution. Well folks, he's just voicing what he thinks of the American voter in general. Very little other than a smell.

Welcome to the New United States.

"On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."

–Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823

And here's a word from my colleague James Madison:

"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."

– James Madison

All right Mr. Washington, you may speak too:

"If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates, but let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."

– George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go back to rolling over in my grave…