Not true.
Actually what I said is precisely true. A convention was never held because Congress headed it off.
Now break out a political map of which groups control which states and you will see that Tea Party conservatives control the most ‘states’.
By my admittedly imprecise math there are around 20 blue states and 30 red states. That's not even a 2/3, much less 3/4, majority.
Actually, there are probably more like 25 red states, 15 blue states and 10 purple states.
>”Actually what I said is precisely true. A convention was never held because Congress headed it off.”
It was I that pointed out to you that Congress headed off the state conventions because they feared a loss of control. But you are still imprecise. In the post I responded to you said:
>”A convention to propose amendments has never been held, and the Constitution does not spell out procedures.”
A states convention process to propose amendments was certainly in work but never finalized passage of amendments because the convention activity of the states shocked Congress into acting.
>”By my admittedly imprecise math there are around 20 blue states and 30 red states. That’s not even a 2/3, much less 3/4, majority.”
Yes, I agree you are imprecise but not only imprecise but also inaccurate. In 2010, republicans with heavy surges of Tea Party support won the most statehouses in history:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/13/AR2010111302389.html
The 2010 elections were a referendum on profligate spending AND OBAMACARE.
In 2012, the 70 million people that supported the Tea Party will be galvanized against the implementation of Obamacare.
This is the time to call for state constitutional conventions. They may need only go so far as to force Congress to act.
The first order of business should be to repeal the 16th Amendment and to enact the FairTax tax code.
Obamacare has been been more than 75 years in the making. Obamacare was spawned by FDR socialists in the 1930s and was taken off the table as being premature. Socialists have Obamacare as a stated goal since the New Deal. And there is more. Once Obamacare has control of the USA healthcare, the socialists will move to curtail you freedom to travel, to associate, to speak and to arm yourself.