[raybbr]

Reading through the editorials on this question most of the liberal media is terrified that the people of Connecticut will vote to overturn the gay marriage law.

They politicians are using every argument in the book; "costs too much, will allow special interest groups to change laws, etc" to convince us that we should simply shut up and let their special interest groups have their say.

[raybbr]

Poll to FReep.

• Should the state hold a convention to amend or revise the state constitution?

  Yes (3095 responses)

  60.4%

  No (2026 responses)

  39.6%

  • 5121 total responses (Results not scientific)

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Absolute BS.

Voters are not alienated. And, if they were, their solution would NOT be a constitutional convention. Who the hell sits around and comes up with that as a solution? No one.

This, like getting rid of the electoral college, are Marxist attempts at destroying “government by the people.”

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

By the way, even at the state level, talk of a “constitutional convention” has the secondary goal of getting all citizens used to the idea so that it would be easier for Obammie the Commie to amend the USC with his commie crap.

[I_hate_politicians]

I don’t fear a convention at the national level at all. While the Senate and maybe the House would be willing accomplices, its unlikely Mr. Obama would get the support of 37 state legislatures in order to revamp the Constitution into a communist manifesto. If that support in the states was already there, the Bill of Rights would have been dispensed with a long time ago.

Unfortunately, regardless of the outcome of this election, the political culture in Washington needs to be drastically changed. It is too powerful and entrenched and will not change itself without a considerable amount of pressure from the outside. If voting where the answer then neither Mr. Obama nor Mr. McCain would be the only choices we have this cycle, the Federal Government would not be running an $11 trillion dollar deficit and Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and Chuckie would working somewhere in the private sector. It’s time for term limits, balanced budgets, public financing of campaigns, the death of the notion of any type of fairness doctrine, shifting of power away from the Federal Government to the States, a clear statement of the right to bear arms that can’t be decided away by a court anywhere, etc., etc., etc. I don’t think we can wait another decade or so to make any progress. There probably won’t be much left to fight for.