Posted on 10/11/2006 9:58:06 AM PDT by Gordongekko909
Wordsmith, ethicist, erudito. Medal of Freedom winner when we get the next great President...
How big would the bumper sticker have to be?
Wonderful article. Hopefully this will be a three-parter.
Okay then, you've laid out three choices - the bad, the worse and the completely unrealistic.
Post and ping coming later today.
Too many of the supposedly "conservative" justices have morphed into liberals. It wasn't more than a year ago that they decided that a city can take your business and give it to your competitor.
So you think they can roll back 60 years of socialism in 6? My, you are an optimist.
I think they could do it overnight in a Constitutional convention. Another option we might have is to have a amendment to allow states to secede and/or to have a procedure for ejecting states from the union.
But I don't see the pendulum swinging any other way but left. We are moving towards more socialized medicine. The Supreme Court makes noises about modeling our laws to be consistent with European laws. The borders are still wide open and Bush wants to legalize the illegals which will only invite more. We don't have much time to fool around.
I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist who sees that our options are getting more and more limited.
Not as unrealistic as the notion in 1776 that a group American colonies with very little military experience or means could declare independence from the world's largest superpower. Political changes don't have to be gradual.
We have can do this legally. We have the threat of a Constitutional Convention. It's a big club that could be used to roll back a lot of what's been done. But we have to play chicken and we can't flinch. And we have to be prepared to go though with it if they don't back down.
This mental illness happened in 1992. That enabled the Clintoons to seize control. Our nation and world is still suffering from that BS. We will not survive if they seize power again in 2006 and 2008.
Cheers to your new bombs!
Link to You Tube: Starring Halfbright and Horney/Stinky Kim Che in Clinton's Latest Glow Job
. . . the Democrats are fellow travelers of the establishment known as "objective journalism." And the defining characteristic of "objective journalism" is that it promotes itself by denigrating everyone who does not depend for his self-validation upon "objective journalism." "Liberal" and "moderate" and "progressive" are not descriptions of the people to who those labels are applied; journalism uses those only as code words signifying membership in good standing of their club of fellow travelers.Everyone who does important and necessary things - instead of merely criticizing those who do - gets mercilessly second guessed by journalism, abetted by its fellow travelers. Since that emphatically includes the military, Democrats "supporting the troops" is a parody of the real thing. Democrats do not respect soldiers any more than they respect policemen or businessmen - or anyone who does respect them.
But conservatives have not. And that's the problem.
First thing is to get someone with credentials interested in the idea. That would be hard because most people are in denial and they think the federal government can somehow be repaired. It would have to be a true conservative specializing in Constitutional law -- Ann Coulter maybe.
Then we would need to get the attention of state legislatures. It takes two-thirds of them to create a convention.
As far as the immediate elections are concerned. I'm not sure if it would a bad thing to have Congress and the White House controlled by different parties. That's what happened from 1994 to 2001 and the resulting political gridlock managed to keep taxes and spending increases reasonable.
But mostly we need to keep the idea alive by bringing it up whenever possible. If it comes down to the wire, no one blinks and the federal government is abolished the states will be free to form new allegiances. Most likely the blue states will immediately form new unions and the red states will be forced to do likewise to counter the threat.
I don't like these scenarios but it's better than the steady decline we see now. My hope would be that the liberals and neo-cons would respond pragmatically to the threat of a Constitutional Convention if they realize we are serious and it allows us to do some serious rollbacks. My fear would be that bogus promises would be made to force the states to back off.
The 2006 elections are what I am interested in. I think the idea of divided government is nuts. You only hear how good it is when the Democrats are out of power. If the Dims get hold of either house, they will truly make GWB a lame duck with ceaseless investigations and calls for impeachment. Iraq will go the way of Vietnam as they will refuse to fund the war. The reason divided government has worked in the past is usually there was a Republican President holding back a Dhimmicratic Congress. Now both are the same party and there is a war going on AND GWB is NOT a conservative. Bur he IS a smart, courageous, and patriotic man who can see through Dimocratic BS. Frankly, your cure is worse than the disease. What we need to do is defeat the RINOs in the primaries. If we can't, we hold our noses and vote for them. Just because the leg has gangrene, doesn't mean you shoot the patient.
Good analogy. What I am suggesting will, if it works, entail the amputation of a few states.
What do you think the chances of getting conservatives from states like Massachusetts? California is pretty much lost to the illegal alien vote.
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