Inaction Will Equal Complacency

American Thinker ^ | 11/03/10 | Norah Petersen

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"...Rush Limbaugh told a cautionary anecdote about what ultimately happened to the conservatives who were elected in the 1994 landslide victory:

"...the '94 freshman class was made up of what you would have to say were the forerunners of Tea Partiers. I met a bunch of them. They'd come to my TV show. These were not inside the Beltway people. I would ask 'em: "Well, what are you going to do about X?" "Well, we just gonna change it." It was simple as pie. "We're just gonna change it."

But they found it very difficult to change things, and so they left. ...One of the things is that politics is a business like any other..."

[Timely Renewed]

Legislative efforts are by their nature fleeting and subject to corruption. We need to seize this moment to go deeper, and restore respect for the Constitution. Unfortunately it has been so misconstrued and abused by over 70 years of progressive control of the Supreme Court and other branches of the federal government that simple legislative action is not enough. We need to promote amendments to the Constitution to restore its original meaning and structure. This can lock in this moment of constitutionalist resurgence regardless of the future vagaries of political parties.

The first step is to put through an amendment to the amendment process itself which will eliminate the unnecessary convention now required by Article V and permit States to directly initiate amendment proposals. This will break the current de facto federal congressional and judicial monopoly on interpreting the Constitution, and empower grassroots patriots on the state level to restore the Constitution by amendment. This will then permanently constrain future federal mischief even if this Congress unhappily goes the way of the Republicans of the 1990s. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com