Posted on 01/15/2014 10:05:43 AM PST by Bigtigermike
It turns out that Senator Tom Coburn is a big supporter of Mark Levin’s new book The Liberty Amendments. When asked last night about this new 1000 plus page spending bill and the fact that the Senate will vote on it before anyone gets a chance to read it, Sen. Tom Coburn told Mark Levin that you can’t prevent this stuff from happening because all we have is a bunch of career politicians who only care about getting reelected. He says the only way to fix Washington is for the states to convene a Convention of the States and limit their power, something he definitely supports.
Listen:
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Good idea on their part, Looks like it worked too
I guess when Dems saw those ‘dont blink’ commercials claiming that a shutdown would force REid and Obama to repeal Obama-care, REid and Obama said :
“Our lucky day. Now that they are calling for a shutdown we can shut it down and blame them and it will sound believable. The GOP will surrender just like they did in 1996”
and it rallied conservatives and it energized conservatives like they haven’t been since Saran Palin was selected as VP candidate.
Unfortunately the GOPe leaders have no desire to energize and rally conservative voters.
From the posts I read here and many Mark Levin and Rush rants it sounds like it rallied and energized the GOPe to organize , and resulted in the budget they just passed too.
You must recalling seeing those posts, just search for word 'attack' in title.
Didn't Obama win that election?
Okay, Sparky.....are you saying that the government “shut-down” of last fall was done by Conservatives?
because RINO McCain suspended his campaign and then all but endorsed Obama a week before the vote.
“Obama is a good man, he will make a fine President. We have nothing to fear from a President Obama”
that is called capitulation
But she was still on the ticket
I was saying you didn't see Pelosi shutting down the government to block the Iraq surge. She funded it instead. As to this latest shutdown:
see #41
I believe TERM LIMITS is the number one proposal in Mark Levin's book, The Liberty Amendments.
Apparently Mark Levin is sending copies of the book to State Legislators across the country. One such State Legislator from NM called the show yesterday, and announced that she had received the book, read it, and has pre-submitted a bill in the NM Legislature for the state to join the Convention of the States.
The State Legislatures are where these changes must happen, and it is happening. It is not a quick fix. It is going to be a long, hard fight for the survival of human civilization.
From D.C. McAllister's review of the book:
Levin’s 11 Proposed Liberty Amendments:
1.Establish Congressional Term Limits
2.Repeal the 17th Amendment and Restore the Senate
3.Establish Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices
4.Limit Federal Spending
5. Limit Federal Taxing
6.Limit the Federal Bureaucracy
7.Promote Free Enterprise
8.Protect Private Property
9.Grant States Authority to Directly Amend the Constitution
10.Grant States Authority to Check Congress
11.Protect the Vote
(While these are Levin’s suggestions, he has stated that others could certainly be proposed.)
on the wrong end
SXe had her chance in 2012. McCain had nothing to do with that.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post lamenting the need for a strong leader, a visionary, a man of conviction to help us break the chains of tyranny that are enslaving us, a rebel who will stand up to the establishment and restore the principles of freedom on which our nation was founded. I think we have found one such man in Mark Levin—though I’m sure we need many such men to push back the despotic tide that is threatening to drown us all.
Like the prophet Ezra turning his people back to the law of God after their exile in Babylon, Levin is calling Americans back to their law, to their founding principles—to the Constitution. He’s doing it through his book The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic.
My purpose in this post is not to debate the feasibility of state conventions in amending the Constitution -- Mainly because one would need to read Levin’s book to grasp how this can be done. If you would like to discuss the constitutional process itself, I point you to Ricochet member Ole Summer’s post on The Liberty Amendments.
After reading the book, I do think Levin’s plan is possible (of course it is—the Founders wouldn’t have included it in the Constitution if they thought it weren’t possible!), but, as he says, it won’t happen overnight. This is not a plan for those addicted to instant gratification or quick fixes. This is a battle that will take years, but it is a beginning. It is a vision.
What I would like to do through a series of posts is discuss each amendment Levin has proposed -- amendments designed to turn America back to the Constitution. This might seem strange—amending the Constitution to save it—but this is exactly the gift given to the American people by our founders when politicians have become too tyrannical to fix the government themselves.
The first amendment Levin has proposed is establishing term limits for members of Congress:
SECTION 1: No person may serve more than twelve years as a member of Congress, whether such service is exclusively in the House or the Senate or combined in both Houses.
SECTION 2: Upon ratification of this Article, any incumbent member of Congress whose term exceeds the twelve-year limit shall complete the current term, but thereafter shall be ineligible for further service as a member of Congress.
According to Levin, “There is nothing wrong with keeping a good public servant in office for as long as the official and we, the voters, want him there. New does not necessarily mean better, and often it can mean worse.” The problem is that in reality too often unexpected consequences prevail.
America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism. Moreover, our supposedly broad parameters of “choice” at the ballot box have actually caused a dramatic narrowing of electoral options for voters. Putting aside the media histrionics over “divided” government and the “dysfunctional” relationships between the two houses of Congress, these institutions are populated by a class of elected officials who jealously covet the power of public office.
In 2010, 85 percent of incumbents from both parties were reelected—397 members of the House ran for reelection and 339 won. The Senate’s reelection rate was 84 percent.
Ronald Rotunda, Chapman University law professor and constitutional expert, made the point a few years ago that “turnover in the House of Lords has been greater than the turnover in the House of Representatives. There was even more turnover in the membership of the Soviet Politburo.”
As Levin says, “It is apparent that in Washington and most political capitals TIME in office = POWER.”
An important antidote is congressional term limits, which slowly displaces a self-perpetuating ruling class populated by professional politicians—which is increasingly authoritarian in its approach to governance—with a legislative body whose members are, in fact, more representative of the people, for they are rotated in and out of Congress over a generally shorter and defined period of time.
What do you think of this particular amendment in helping to reduce the power of the federal government and putting it back in the hands of the people?
Levin’s 11 Proposed Liberty Amendments:
(While these are Levin’s suggestions, he has stated that others could certainly be proposed.)
Christie had his chance in 2016 and didn’t run either.
He didn't do freedom bus tours to NH and Iowa, tell Greta he has the fire in her belly to run, on The FNC Record and get Newsweek to do a cover story on his upcoming POTUS run in 2012 though.
This one is real important too.
3.Establish Term Limits for Supreme Court Justices
The only way that will ever happen is through a convention of states as explained in this video.
Our Constitution is fine....it is how they are twisted and distorted by the people we pay to run the place and ‘interpret’ our rights. the politicians are the problem not the constitution.
Christie is busy for a while with bridge-gate,
but you were not fantasizing that Palin will run in 2016 are you? I hope not,.
And Coburn is talking about Mark Levin’s effort to restore it
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