Comments on: Jumping on the Brown Bandwagon http://www.frumforum.com/jumping-on-the-brown-bandwagon Building a conservatism that can win again Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:50:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TAZ http://www.frumforum.com/jumping-on-the-brown-bandwagon/comment-page-1#comment-80493 TAZ Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:54:05 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=20391#comment-80493 While he is amending the constitution for the balanced budget amendment maybe he can make some promises on an amendment for abortion too.... As I said in another post, my local Mississippi radio talking heads (social tea partiers) are claiming a victory because "conservatism" was put back in "republicanism"...... Never mind he's pro-abortion and open to gay marriage....... While he is amending the constitution for the balanced budget amendment maybe he can make some promises on an amendment for abortion too….

As I said in another post, my local Mississippi radio talking heads (social tea partiers) are claiming a victory because “conservatism” was put back in “republicanism”……

Never mind he’s pro-abortion and open to gay marriage…….

]]> By: sinz54 http://www.frumforum.com/jumping-on-the-brown-bandwagon/comment-page-1#comment-80482 sinz54 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:07:18 +0000 http://www.frumforum.com/?p=20391#comment-80482 Advocating amending the Constitution is just a way of punting the hard decisions of just how to balance the Federal budget (or even whether it should be balanced during a recession). To pass an Amendment, you need 2/3 of both houses of Congress AND 3/4 of the state legislatures. Good luck with that. Since the Bill of Rights was adopted in 1789, the Constitution has been amended only 17 more times--an average of one Amendment every 13 years. If you truly want to balance the Federal budget, you don't need to wait for all that. You just need to tell us which outlays to cut and which taxes to raise. You're right, Pawlenty has misread the mood of the public. They don't want to be bamboozled anymore. And they will know that advocating a Constitutional Amendment in lieu of real proposals is just bamboozling them some more. Advocating amending the Constitution is just a way of punting the hard decisions of just how to balance the Federal budget (or even whether it should be balanced during a recession).

To pass an Amendment, you need 2/3 of both houses of Congress AND 3/4 of the state legislatures. Good luck with that.

Since the Bill of Rights was adopted in 1789, the Constitution has been amended only 17 more times–an average of one Amendment every 13 years.

If you truly want to balance the Federal budget, you don’t need to wait for all that. You just need to tell us which outlays to cut and which taxes to raise.

You’re right, Pawlenty has misread the mood of the public. They don’t want to be bamboozled anymore. And they will know that advocating a Constitutional Amendment in lieu of real proposals is just bamboozling them some more.

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