Harvard Elite Writing New Constitution- with the Tea Party

Townhall.com ^ | October 9, 2011 | Ralph Benko

[ken21]

ditto.

updating the u.s. constitution has been on the laundry list of to-do’s by leftists since i was in college.

[hinckley buzzard]

I hope Meckler doesn 't get sucked in by this hoax. The tip-off to the fraudulent intent of the leftwing sociopath from Harvard is the focus on "all this money corrupting the political process."

If you want to keep money from corrupting the process, without terminating First Amendment rights, reduce government meddling and gratuitous regulations to the bare bones minimum necessary to maintain good civil order. If special interest money can't buy regulatory favors, including enabling legislation, it won't be there for long.

That is the key to solving the distortion caused by huge moneys, but I guarantee the Harvard leftwinger won't touch that idea with a ten foot pole.

[Travis McGee]

Ratified by the states, in very hazily-defined state ratifying conventions, which could be ginned up over night by the same MoveOn crowd that ginned up the Con Con in the first place.

Sure, half of the country wouldn't accept its validity, and there would be a Civil War.

Actually, that's the plot of my third novel.

Here is a long excerpt, giving a fictional take on the dire aftermath of a runaway ConCon.

http://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/FESP.htm

[Travis McGee]

Thanks.

[hinckley buzzard]

What makes you think that some socialist claptrap of a constitution would have the slightest chances of being ratified by three-quarters of the states? This argument is a straw man.

Oh, I dunno. Read Amendments XVI, XVII, and XVIII to see what claptrap has already been duly ratified during a "progressive era."

[Siena Dreaming]

There is a strong strain of class warfare on the right too, not just the left.

Obama took advantage of that sentiment in red states last election.

Be careful of any force which would cut off credit...thus ending the capitalist system. That includes class warfare on the right as well.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Yes, what he said.

Yeah, what I said, except with the substitution of "rein" for "reign". :-)

[af_vet_rr]

If FREEPERS don't know who this is or what groups are ‘representing’ the TEA Party...it is propaganda. Pure evil propaganda.

One problem I have with some of the Tea Party groups is that some were setup and controlled by libertarians and that is worrisome.

[Future Snake Eater]

Unless there was a full coup I’m unaware of, this sounds like an academic exercise. Our current Constitution has an amendment process, there’s no need to rewrite anything.

Stupid story.