This has some small chance of success because the locus of effort is not in Washington but in 99 state legislatures which are substantially more conservative than the federal Congress and more likely to pursue genuine reform.
Two codicils: 1) it must be acknowledged that politicians in statehouses are no more noble and no less venal than elected politicians in Washington it is however submitted that they are beholden to a different set of self interests which align better with the interests of The Tea Party; 2) any meaningful reform to come out of this Article V movement probably cannot occur absent some sort of black Swan. Just as it is unlikely that we can muster the resolve to effectively counter aggressive Islam, it is unlikely that we can muster the integrity to actually reform our system absence some sort of economic, social, political, or security shock.
