Posted on 05/15/2010 5:10:55 AM PDT by Jim Noble
Future historians tracing the crackup of the Republican Party may well look to May 8, 2010, as an inflection point.
That was the day, as is now well known, that Sen. Robert Bennett, who took the conservative position 84 percent of the time over his career, was deemed not conservative enough by fellow Utah Republicans and booted out of the primary.
Less well known, but equally ominous, is what happened that same day, 2,500 miles east in Maine. There, the state Republican Party chucked its platform -- a sensible New England mix of free-market economics and conservation -- and adopted a manifesto of insanity: abolishing the Federal Reserve, calling global warming a "myth," sealing the border, and, as a final plank, fighting "efforts to create a one world government."...
Beck justifiably credited his viewers for "what happened to Bob Bennett in Utah." He warned: "People in Washington, you should be terrified."
We should be terrified -- particularly the Republicans, whose party is turning into this One-World-Government, Obama-worships-Satan, Jesus-opposes-climate-bill mélange. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Welcome to the club. However, ordinary political change is insufficient to correct the problem, as it has grown to the point of ruining our nation economically, and our democracy. This is why there is a growing movement for the individual States to call a constitutional convention.
Since the early part of the 20th Century, progressives have planted a propagandistic meme in the public schools, that has been dutifully repeated since, and is clearly false. This is that a constitutional convention is “unthinkable, it would be controlled by radicals.” Whereas just the opposite is the case.
It takes 34 States to call a convention, and 38 States must vote to ratify a convention. The only thing that 38 States could agree on is that their State power must be increased, at the expense of federal power.
Already, States are forming into blocs on at least a dozen issues, but all with the same basic concept, to reassert their power.
When and if an economic catastrophe befalls our nation, only then will there be enough impulse for the States to act. And there is a formative list of what they should discuss in returning our nation to order, and the federal government to its constitutional framework.
This is not an inclusive list, and there are some redundancies. However, each item within can be justified as addressing a serious and longstanding problem.
Please review these and see what you think.
Repeal of the 16th (Income Tax) and 17th (Direct Election of US Senators) Amendments of the constitution.
Flat Income Tax Amendment.
Balanced Budget Amendment.
Presidential Line Item Veto Amendment.
National Census Enumeration Only Amendment.
Personal Information and Records Limitation Amendment.
Corporate Civil Rights Distinct From The Civil Rights Of Living Persons Amendment.
Oligopoly Antitrust Amendment.
Presidential War Powers Amendment.
Posse Comitatus Amendment.
Limitations on Presidential Authority To Declare Martial Law Amendment.
Presidential Authority Only Through Cabinet Officers; Appointment and Impeachment of Cabinet Officers Amendment; Term Limits for Recess Appointments;
Limitation on Extra-Constitutional Bureaucratic Authority Amendment.
Creation of a State Appointed Constitutional Review Court Amendment (50 State Judges To Sit As a Federal Nullification Court).
Reorganization of Federal Judiciary Amendment.
Amendment for the Reduction of the Size and Authority of the Federal Government and Enabling Acts.
Writ of Mandamus Amendment.
Congressional and Judicial Term Limits Amendment.
Restoration of State Lands from Federal Land Takings and Limitations of Eminent Domain Amendment.
Delineation of a National Tribal Congress for Indigenous Peoples Amendment (renegotiation of treaties and integration of tribal and commercial law).
Limitations of Federal Intelligence and Police Authority, Surveillance, Warrantless Search and Records Retention Amendment.
Renunciation of the National Debt Amendment.
Abolition of the FED Amendment.
Prohibition of Federal Largess to Individuals Amendment.
Restrictions on Earmarks, Single Subject Congressional Act Amendment.
Abolition of Government Employee Unions Amendment.
How conservative that is depends on the state, and the district.
I agree.
I have told this story here many times, but will say it again because it's important. For many years, I lived in a district where my only choice was RINO or Rat. I voted for the RINO, all the while continuing to work for something better. This was back during the Contract with America, impeachment and so on. My vote for that dum bass RINO actually was very important: it was critical to giving the Republicans a majority; which then made Gingrich the Speaker of the House; which then made Henry Hyde, a strong pro-life member, the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee; which then . . . you get the picture.
I did what I had to do in my district to SUPPORT fellow conservatives who were putting people such as Gingrich and Hyde into office and positions of national leadership. I was doubling their vote, so to speak. Because I voted for dum bass, their vote for Gingrich put him in Congress AND I helped make him Speaker. Because I voted for dum bass, a very strong pro-life member became Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
After RINO retired, my old district turned Rat again. :(
Your razor-sharp analysis bears repeating. This is EXACTLY what is happening.
Rahm Emmanuel, of all people, is going to be proved right. He begged Obambi not to go forward with Obamacare. He knew it would be the last straw, that it would open the floodgates of political Armageddon. Clueless "the birds are still chirping" Obambi still does not see the wave that is forming after the earthquake.
Future historians tracing the demise of the Demonrat party will point to the Tea Party movement.
Dana Milbank sounds like Tokyo Rose ... before the Battle of Midway ...
Dana Milbanks and his ilk have put a fig leaf over the far left radicals in the Democrat Party for decades. They must be thinking, “What if a very vocal faction in the Democrat Party starts organizing and demanding ideological purity a la Obama/Pelosi/Reid in the Democrat Party and acts to purge the party of all the Rahm Emanuel recruited “centrist” Democrats in favor of left wingers?” The cool reaction to Oliverio winning the primary in WV-1 is giving warning signs.
Milbank would find it extremely difficult to paper over the radicalism of a party who prefers Castro, Chavez and Guevera to our Founding Fathers.
A few women in pink shirts here and there are enough to ignore, but if the 60’s radicals, and like-minded ideologues actually begin to emulate the Tea Party Patriots in size, scope and influence, watch out. It will be all out war in the Democrat Party and will drive any rationale thinking centrist Dems over to the GOP.
There's a lot of 60's radicals IN the Tea Party.
The antiwar movement involved millions. The commies (so-called "New Left") were outsiders who tried to take it over and broke it up, instead.
It's amazing to me how close to power those people are today.
One of my favorites !
One of the Js in my user-name is Jones, my dog's AKC registered name is "Bob Dylan Jones"
Your right, they have no clue !
Democrats never send the old and sick senators into retirement. They have many of them in office like Robert Byrd. He , more than likely are depending on staff to do it all. Harry Reid cannot even vote in the senate without being confused between yes and no vote.Lautenberg is in his 80’s with a serious illness. Mr Milbank should know that politicians can be recalled anytime an election comes around. ( unless you have union goons and black panther members working the polls).
My fellow Americans......
It's ..A Time for Choosing
They think we're crazy and they fear us.
And, millions of us take great pleasure in that.
Beck spent Friday’s show on George Whitfield, a guy who died in 1770. Not exactly a major topical news hook.
Yes, that and the Universities...and the government institutions from the local water department to the White House.
What good are they?
Go JD, we have to have McCain out. Out of the Senate.
There is a change to the list I didn’t mention. Both the Flat and Fair Income Tax proposals, as well as other federal government funding schemes need State level debate, as it is up to them to determine how best the federal government should be funded.
This is not easy, as funding the federal government has always been a major problem, starting with Shays’ Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion, the latter of which was met by George Washington violating the new constitution.
So this, along with the renunciation of the national debt, and the future prohibition of federal largess to individuals, will take up the majority of the time spent in convention.
As Mark Levin has said...."there's nothing wrong with our Constitution". The problem is with the Justices. We need to remove the liberal wing and never again appoint Judges who subscribe to the notion of the "Living Constitution".
“It’s a RINO purge and the Dems are scared out of their wits.”
Spot on! They know full well how much they need RINO plants in Congress to succeed. And across the country, the Rats are busy planting more Leftist sympathizers in Republican primaries and billing them as conservatives. We need to be very careful who we hitch our wagon to in local elections.
So let me see if I get this:
The left-leaning rag Washington Post, is concerned that the GOP is in trouble? If this was truly the case, why wouldn’t they just shut their pieholes and continue to let us destroy ourselves?
I live in Utah, and the GOP is united in our opposition to RINOs like Bennett, just as we’re united (mostly) in our support of Mike Lee!
These Statists see the writing on the wall, and they’re terrified!
If I’ve learned one thing, it’s to never take advice from your enemy.
I don’t see any crackup.
I see a liberal crying because they are losing RINOs. Pretty sweet deal when your deck is so stacked that even when you lose the agenda keeps moving forward.
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