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2017-06-14 Government

Jim DeMint: Washington Will Never Fix Itself, So Here's What We Do

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-14 06:39|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 A constitutional amendment proposing Congressional and Judicial term limits? Best of luck with that.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-14 07:05|| 2017-06-14 07:05|| Front Page Top

#2 I recommend reps go to Washington DC once a quarter and the rest of the time office out of their district. Todays technology enables this.

Right now its like these people go to the DC country club, live in expensive digs, and loose touch with everyone else.

Posted by Throth Ebbotle4074 2017-06-14 07:10|| 2017-06-14 07:10|| Front Page Top

#3 You can sell it to the States on one amendment - bar any federal entity from imposing spending on any State for any federal sponsored program - see Mandates. If the feds want a program, they can pay for it (and raise the taxes or inflate the money, thus taking full responsibility).

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-06-14 08:17|| 2017-06-14 08:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Term limits for bureaucrats, and a salary cap and limits on lobbying (see Insty).

Posted by AlanC 2017-06-14 08:19|| 2017-06-14 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 I always though a neutron bomb sounded like the perfect solution.

Posted by ed in texas 2017-06-14 08:19|| 2017-06-14 08:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe Oliver Cromwell could be resurrected and sent to Washington to march in and clean out the scallywags. After Cromwell died, he was dug up and hanged and beheaded. The Donks are already trying to do that to Trump while he is alive.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-14 08:33|| 2017-06-14 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Re an Article V approach: There should be safeguards in place ssuch that a runaway convention did not occur. There should be concern that the convention was not co-opted by the left to push their pet agendas. The convention should be directed at restoring the power of the States although I thought the 10th Amendment was supposed to do that. The problem is that we are dealing with a bunch of anti constitutionalists in some of the states and activist Federal judges.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-06-14 11:30|| 2017-06-14 11:30|| Front Page Top

#8 ... Unfortunately, even if you could shepherd this past all the pitfalls (and they will be many and manifold), I would bet the house payment that there are Federal judges out there who would find the whole thing unconstitutional.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2017-06-14 11:44|| 2017-06-14 11:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Hear, hear, Mike.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-14 12:29|| 2017-06-14 12:29|| Front Page Top

#10 There should be concern that the convention was not co-opted by the left to push their pet agendas.

Of course they will. See - Scorpion and Frog. That's why its a 2 part process, it still has to go to the states for ratification. The Left Coast and Eastern Coasties don't have enough to make 3/4ths* necessary for it to be changed in their favor. That's why they've used the Judiciary to implement the Equal Rights amendment that failed ratification.

* ignorant of the original constitutional convention, they don't grasp the big states vs little states issue and the compromises needed to resolve it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-06-14 13:16|| 2017-06-14 13:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Judging from the divisions among the electorate at the moment, a con-con will just make things worse.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-06-14 13:25|| 2017-06-14 13:25|| Front Page Top

#12 An amendment reflects the unified will of the people. The people are not unified. So Jim, work on fixing that problem first.

Posted by Jomong Bourbon9156 2017-06-14 18:15|| 2017-06-14 18:15|| Front Page Top

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