A constitutional convention would be the greatest disaster ever to befall whats left of the Republic. We have NO ONE even approaching the stature and ability of Washington, Hamilton, Madison etc etc etc. No No NO!
lets see.........we are gonna put people in charge of a constitutional convention that are currently trampling over the one we got.........not no, but hell no
No. We don’t need to change the Constitution. We simply need leaders who will follow the one we have.
The Constitution is saturated with gasoline and the light’s gone dim. Got a match? I hope not.
Ping.
Can you even imagine what we’d wind up with? We’d end up with 300+ pages full of things like “everyone has the right to dignity” and other such nonsense.
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No way, not with Pelosi and Reid with gavels, not with Obama holding the Bully Pulpit. That would be a disaster. There’s no need for a convention anyway. All we really need is for the original intent to be upheld. Hang tight, FRiend. We lost a battle, but we’re winning the war. Healthcare will win the war too.
THE TRAP IS SPRUNG — a few of us knew but held back. Now? Muahahah! Healthcare will NOT suffer new entitlements. The democrats managed to open a big bear trap, stick their heads in, and trigger the thing to decapitate themselves. Conservatives? Voices of warning ignored. Our economy will suffer like never before, but if that kills the cancer of liberalism, so be it.
Why is healthcare new-entitlement free? Trying to hide the cost, they can’t speed up the process. We have four years — time to vote the bums out AND elect a new president to overturn this monster before a single entitlement is exploited.
Those who voted for it — dust in the wind. Keeping its freedom, healthcare tourism to the US will rise. Just as soon as the world realizes that, the brain drain of top notch doctors to the US will resume. In fact, conservative solutions of healthcare will be implemented, thanks to all the attention forced on this issue. This is the dawning of even better days for healthcare in the Free World.
And please consider this:
Bill Clinton Mocks Gore: Start of Spring is ‘otherwise known to Al Gore as proof of global warming’...
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/03/21/clinton-returns-to-washington-needling-himself-obama-and-the-press
A more pressing need is for patriots to take over local governments.
Run for your local council seat.
Volunteer for your local planning committee.
Elect a conservative, pro-second amendment sheriff.
People need a constitutional political base to operate from. It’s the way the Founders did it.
Local governments can pass ordinances and make judicial rulings that will cause chaos in the federal machinery. A thousand local brushfires across the country will overwhelm federal resources and manpower.
Total disaster. Bad idea.
What problems do we think we can solve Constitutional Convention?
My two cents is that it matters not how many amendments we place in the Constitution while the judiciary is intent on replacing it with its own will. More words saying it means what it says don’t matter to people who don’t read it anyway. The arms lawsuit against the City of Chicago is case in point, and the 10th amendment says it all from my perspective but apparently no longer means anything.
I’m starting to wonder if maybe the Anti-Federalists had a point when they feared that the establishment of a powerful central government would hasten a devolution into tyranny. They were right that it doesn’t really matter what is written on a piece of parchment because it only has meaning as long as it is given meaning by society and the government itself. As long as we’re in the state where it is respected by almost no one even under the best of circumstances a Constitutional Convention would be futile.
I am poking around the edges that government as constituted by the Convention of 1787 is irreparably damaged; not because the Constitution is deficient, but because the nature of a powerful central government is and it needs to be taken out behind the woodshed and put out of our misery.
Be careful what you wish for.
I would wait until 2010 elections when I expect to see 38 states that are solidly conservative.
go for it - it may be purgative. It wold get all the devils out in the open that have been trying to kill America by jot and tiddle.
ABSOLUTELY NO!!!
Thanks to all posters.
Yes. The same set of political clown running the US Government now are the ones who will get elected to a Constitutional Convention.
They would then hold the power to simply rewrite the US Constitution to mean what ever they want it to mean.
A Constitutional Convention is the WRONG answer.
The right answer is for everyone to get busy firing the clown posse in DC this Nov and replacing them with people who are at least some what sane.
NO!
No. Look at Congress and those are the kind of people who will be in your Constitutional Convention. Can you imagine what would come out of that?
The last thing we need is a constitutional convention.