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2015-04-06 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Doing the math for a new Constitutional Convention

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Posted by gorb 2015-04-06 11:51|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Been doing this calculation for years. We had better numbers after the 2010 election. Anyway, I do not trust the current Republican party to not f*ck this up.

Posted by Iblis 2015-04-06 13:03|| 2015-04-06 13:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Any amendment from the convention still requires approval by the 3/4 of the states. I doubt the Donks will get much that will have any effect out of the convention.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-06 14:31|| 2015-04-06 14:31|| Front Page Top

#3 I do not trust the current Republican party to not f*ck this up.
Iblis, I pretty much trust them to f anything they touch up.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-04-06 15:40|| 2015-04-06 15:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Dear God, NO - the last thing we want is a Constitutional Convention. It would be the target of every death-or-glory liberal who could fly, walk, or crawl to the proceedings with their particular hobby horse. That would be after, of course, the Two Parties did their damnedest to stop it from happening in the first place. If you want to see the loss of every freedom we're still barely hanging on to, have a Convention.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-04-06 16:33|| 2015-04-06 16:33|| Front Page Top

#5 ...sort of missed my comment did you? How many states do the socialists control? That's their problem. Concentrating on big city states leaves them crippling short of getting anything subsequently ratified. Heck they couldn't even get the Equal Rights Amendment passed in the heyday of 'liberalism'. Now they have to do it through judicial interpretation.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-06 16:47|| 2015-04-06 16:47|| Front Page Top

#6 OK. But what do you do when the president ignores the constitution?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-04-06 17:31|| 2015-04-06 17:31|| Front Page Top

#7 ..then there is no constitution or basis of legitimacy of power. It becomes an exercise in power. Which is why they desperately want to get guns out of the hands of the population. They can not afford one Concord bridge event in their application of force cause then they can only control what they can occupy and in this vast continental arrangement that's not much. Even Mao understood you had to control the countryside not the cities.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-04-06 18:19|| 2015-04-06 18:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Even Mao understood you had to control the countryside not the cities.

Is this the vast part of the country that liberal black south African comedians such as Trevor Noah try to make fun of (but don't quite pull it off? The part of the country where POTUS says the people like to hang onto their God, guns, and religion?

Posted by JohnQC 2015-04-06 19:24|| 2015-04-06 19:24|| Front Page Top

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