[dirtboy]

He says the only way to fix Washington is for the states to convene a Convention of the States and limit their power,

Sorry, Coburn. You had a lot of potential and eventually succumbed to the Beltway flu yourself.

The Constitution has plenty of limits on government power. The problem is, the three branches of government collude to kick down those limits. The only, ONLY way to limit government is to limit the careers of big-government politicians in both parties.

[House Atreides]

ONLY after Tea Party members gain operational control of more states.

[NFHale]

Senator:

Then stop talking about it and DO IT. Do whatever it takes to make it happen.

Talk is cheap.

[Sacajaweau]

Here’s the problem.....the purse is now located in DC and DC has turned the states into beggers.

[Vaquero]

Why? So they can officially take away our constitutional rights thant they currently scoff ??

No thanks. The rights handed down to us by the founders are just fine, Tom.

[sickoflibs]

Zero chance of that happening.

Back ~ 20 years ago when I was young+ naive I would buy books that’s entire subject was about something fixing Washington that had not a chance of happening,
I recall a book on congressional term limits. Never happening.

Not even worth debating.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

All this whining, finally an idea I could get behind, and actively support.

[henkster]

We’ve already had a convention of states that came up with a system of government with limited federal powers. They even formalized it in a document that all the states ratified.

[Ray76]

On February 21, 1787 Congress proposed a Convention for "the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation"

Resolved that in the opinion of Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.

Journals of the Continental Congress, 32:74

The rest is history.

[central_va]

Articles of Secession would be more effective.

[Billthedrill]

In one of the anti-Federalist papers it was pointed out just how few Congressmen needed to be present to pass an outrageously oppressive bill. I think the number at the time was around 30.

Of course, Congress is much bigger now. Unfortunately the number of persons present to pass outrageously oppressive legislation has dwindled to one. And he's doing it, too.

[Count of Monte Fisto]

We can not expect the people currently in power to fix the problems that they themselves have created by design!

They would simply use a Convention to create more mayhem.

The only solution is to remove those currently in power and forever bar them from participating the political system.

[bestintxas]

38 is the magic #

38 states coming together can accomplish anything.

The can fire Obama, dissolve Congress, even abolish Supreme Court

[mjp]

He says the only way to fix Washington is for the states to convene a Convention of the States and limit their power

Also

1) balanced budget amendment
2) 100% reserve gold standard
3) eliminate the Federal Reserve
4) repeal 16th and 17th amendments

[ThomasMore]

Not only limit their power...but also TERM LIMITS. No more than 8 years. Moratorium on working for a someone/firm who donated to your campaign for 5 years.

The corruption has to end.