None of these people are electable. NONE. They have no principles and no spine.
I'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. If this is the absolute BEST America has to offer politicaly, than it deserves everything it gets.
It is absolutely disgusting seeing these people sweet talk their way into a conservatives bedroom. We wake up the next morning; they're gone. They kiss and tell and cheat on us with the media and every liberal cause known to man. I know what cheap whore feels like.
If we allow the RNC to cherry pick the biggest RINOs the most un-principled BASTARDS to ever disgrace the American political scene then they deserve to lose.
So, go ahead start crying that 0bama will win. Good. To hell with it. I've been moving in a position to Go Galt. Y'all deal wih it. Remember these people are reresentatives of US.... if you want a spineless idiot to represent you, what does that say about you?
You’ve identified the problem, but it is somewhat worse. That is, the national government has become institutionally ungovernable. It is beyond the ability of elections, and both political parties, to alter this destructive momentum.
So what if Sarah Palin was elected president? Even with a heavily Republican Senate and House, the national government institutional momentum is such that those Republican congressmen would be just as worthless as were the last bunch, under George W. Bush. And even Sarah Palin couldn’t change its course.
But there is another constitutional mechanism to correct a flawed national government. It is the constitutional convention of the individual States.
We were all raised with the idea that a constitutional convention was “unthinkable”, or would be “too radical”, or would be prone to manipulation by dark and insidious forces. But nothing could be further from the truth.
2/3rds (34) of the States must agree to convene a convention, and 3/4ths (38) of the States must vote in favor of any draft constitution they produce. This guarantees both that our national circumstances must be dire, and that a restoration of a *federal* government, from being a national government, is done in a conservative and orderly fashion.
And it is long past due for the States to convene such a convention.
The article mentions the Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison (1803), as being critical to any debate on the subject, and it is, but the problems with our current constitution go all the way back to its very beginnings. It is past due for a bunch of “fixes”, to get our house in order.
Marbury v. Madison, in a nutshell, established both that the Supreme Court could constitutionally review laws; but just as importantly, that the President of the United States is in effect “above the law”, and cannot be controlled in any way other than with impeachment and conviction.
And this is the reason why today, the President can appoint “Czars” who have not been approved by the Senate, and why he can create federal agencies with a memorandum, and declare what parts of the law he feels like enforcing, with “Presidential Signing Statements.”
Here is a laundry list of other subjects that right now, the individual States and their citizens should be debating, prior to interstate discussions as to the formation and agenda of a constitutional convention. While there is some redundancy, there are serious arguments for each of these things.
This is *not* an inclusive list:
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 and Posse Comitatus Amendments;
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;
Congressional Approval of Bureaucratic Regulatory 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 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;