[Political Junkie Too]

We would more likely get a pair of amendments legalizing gay marriage and illegal aliens than anything that is helpful.

You don't get amendments. You get amendment proposals.

You still need the states to ratify them. Good luck getting 38 states to ratify gay marriage.

"Illegal aliens" is not an amendment, it is a current state. One can pass a law to legalize them, but I fail to see how any kind of amendment can be aimed at something ambiguous as "legalizing illegal aliens." Once the current population of illegal aliens is legalized, what would the amendment do? Would this amendment remove any illegality for all time? Would this amendment say that anyone who enters the United States for any reason instantly becomes a citizen? Anyone who overstays a visa is not here illegally? There is no longer a reason to get a visa because the United States is now borderless? Good luck getting 38 states to pass that kind of amendment, too.

-PJ

[highball]

We would more likely get a pair of amendments legalizing gay marriage and illegal aliens than anything that is helpful.

You don't get amendments. You get amendment proposals. You still need the states to ratify them.

Good luck getting 38 states to ratify gay marriage.

In a couple years, when the process works its way through? With the way polling has been steadily going against us?

Even the redder states are starting to approach 50% approval. I have no doubt that they will find 38 states before the amendment expires, if it ever did. They're already more than halfway there.

I'm not as sanguine as so many, that we can open this can of worms and control the process entirely b