A ConCon would be a fatal mistake. No matter how it started, it would be hijacked by union thugs and and socialists. At the end, we would have a “constitution” like that of the old USSR, complete with a “right to a job” and the “fair” distribution of wealth.
I have a problem with this...don’t know who this Tea Party person is or who he represents. It’s not the Tea Party I know.
This is a remarkably bad idea.
Let’s start with the federal government spending over a trillion dollars a year more than it takes in. This provoked the Tea Party.
I thought it was racism...?
The TEA Party is being set up to be the fallguy for the violence that is coming.
If FREEPERS don't know who this is or what groups are ‘representing’ the TEA Party...it is propaganda. Pure evil propaganda.
ALL real Tea Party Patriots need to start taking steps to properly identify themselves. My God, I can't believe this is happening really. Of course there is the flipside to identifying ourselves which as this devolves...DHS will have a hey day.
Did not read the article. Posting from having read the headline. Wondering why anyone would think the original Constitution could be improved upon? Maybe there should be an amendment here or there, every once in a great while, but why scrap the original and expect a new and improved document? (imho) it would not be possible (a new and improved document) and any ConCon would be just as a ConCon implies, a ConCon.
I’m against any new Constitutional Amendments because the prospect of getting bad ones is real.
and thus one of the problems for liberals with the Tea Party. There is now command structure no National Leader of the movement to attack. So anyone can declare themselves a Tea Partier.....this can also be used against us. Uber libs are going to start identifying themselves as Tea Party leaders and saying Racist things and generally betrataying all Tea Party ideals! Working with Progressives to rework the Constitution is a HORRIBLE idea...Remember they believe that the Constitution is a document of Negative Rights. Stay vigilant the left will go to any length to retain power in 2012 and beyond!!!
I never voted for Mark Meckler to speak for me. Seems he thinks pretty high of himself.
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Mark-Meckler-Must-Step-Down-from-Tea-Party-Patriots/151707534870003
Amendment 1: The right of the people to be secure in their feelings and not have their emotional well being questioned shall not be infringed.
"Populism" is in many cases just another word for mobocracy. Much of the structure of our republic is designed to reign in the darker impulses of populist movements.
“Populist”? That’s a big warning signal to me. We are a constitutional Republic, founded on the recognition of the sovereignty of the individual, and dedicated to the rule of law. Not populism, which in action, is more appropriately equated with democracy and rule of the majority.
Meckler? Never heard of him and sure as hell didn’t vote for him.
Party who lay down with Harvard dogs wake up with pee in Tea Cup.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Clearly both of them have missed the essence of the problem, which is that the federal government has strayed from its legitimate purpose of protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Coercing people into being subjected to ‘universal health care’ is not at all the business of the federal government. Looting the wealth of half of the citizens in order to hand out freebies to the other half is not at all the business of the federal government.
It’s crystal clear to many of us. Guess that you need to be a Harvard professor or a self-annointed tea party leader to be so easily confused...
We just need to abide by the original intent of the one we've got.
Meaning the federal government gets gutted back to its original enumerated powers.
This stinks so bad I can smell it here from OZ - beware Soclialists bearing gifts!
what, declaring it an enemy of the state?