You said — “If you think the loony left is going to hold a Constitutional Convention and only address this one proposal, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.”
Well, you have to remember that you would be going into a Constitutional Convention with 34 states that have *already* and *expressly* said in their states’ requests that they are limiting this to a balanced budget amendment. So, by *their own wording* and their own state’s approval (by the voting population of that state) — they have limited it.
Now, that would mean that 34 states would be going into a Constitutional Convention *already limiting themselves* by their very own requests that were put forth (by the approval of the people in those states).
And since the amendment process has to be approved by the states (and not Congress), they won’t be able to get out any other amendments other than what they went in to do.
However, even if another amendment were to come out of it, it’s already D.O.A. — because it takes 3/4 of the states to ratify any such “new amendment”. And how are they going to get 3/4 of the states in the United States to approve an amendment that *no one* is asking for — knowing that they went in there for only one purpose (the balanced budget amendment)?
It’s very difficult to get 3/4 of the states to approve any amendment, at all...