There is a glaring omission from the new Republican Pledge to America. Serious citizens should pay careful attention to it and decide whether voting in the coming midterm elections is justified. by Joel S. Hirschhorn
(libertarian)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
The Republican establishment in Congress has issued its Pledge to America. Now the question is: How many gullible, poorly informed Americans will fall for this stunt to protect the Republican status quo powers masquerading as reformers? Will Tea Party people fall for the garbage? Will fed up independents swallow the empty rhetoric? I hope not.
I get a special kick out of this part of the pledge: "honor the Constitution as constructed by its framers." If that was really true, then we should have seen explicit language calling for an Article V convention with a strong argument that true government reforms require constitutional amendments that Congress will never propose.
This omission alone is sufficient cause for condemning the Pledge as just another dirty trick by the Republican establishment that is trying to hold onto power.
I fully understand public anger with both major political parties and especially with the dysfunctional Congress, the President and even the Supreme Court. But with the coming midterm elections there simply is little hope of producing anything that will produce better government and a fix for our dead economy and terrible conditions for all but the rich Upper Class. I hope that a maximum number of incumbents in Congress are defeated, both Democrats and Republicans, because they both deserve to be thrown out of office. Yet I see little hope that those replacing them will offer what is needed. Odds are that a huge fraction of incumbents will retain office, even in this year of public anger and dissent.
In our delusional democracy there is an epidemic of delusional thinking, including the belief that elections controlled by the two-party plutocracy can produce results which create much better government. That is why the increasing support for using the Article V convention option the Founders gave us has taken on greater importance. The only pledge that all those running for Congress should give is a total commitment to convene the first Article V convention and let state delegates openly debate real solutions to the many critical problems facing the nation.
Do not vote for anyone running for Congress that has not made this pledge, not matter their party affiliation or connection to the Tea Party movement. Wake up Americans! Elections are a farce. Voting in them just makes you a co-conspirator in a vicious, scandalous con game that is flushing the nation down the toilet. The world needs to see a shocking low voter turnout that removes the legitimacy of this delusional democracy.
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Posted By: Bentree
Date: October 2, 2010 09:48:56 AM
Joel, Is the Republican pledge worth the paper it is written on? No! Will the Tea Par-tiers buy into it? Some will, most I think won't. They may be more angry at the, after all you know what you are getting with the liberals, the Republicans, they are the real WISC's. It's about constitutional conservatism not republicans v democrats. If the Tea Party doesn't get that then we are screwed. This could be the last election cycle to alter the path that we are on. The Libertarians have nothing but ideas and no influence I'm sad to say. There is little that Mr. Paul says that I would disagree with but he has no voice, his son? we'll see.
Article V, the most dangerous thing we could do right now is to open the Constitution to amendments without the power to control the process. If we as conservatives control the legislature then the safest method would be individual amendments. If we do not have the power why in the name of Dick Austins hat band would you have a convention.
Just on the chance we get the power back. A once and done Amendment for legislators. 6 yrs. For Senators and 4 years for Congress-persons on a 2 years cycle. Then home. If you can't get it done in 4 or 6 years then you didn't have it in the first place. Sit down, shut up and go home.
Every law before consideration must pass a constitutionality test. If passed, another constitutionality test before it can take effect. Except by an emergency 90% vote, this is to allow for the libertarian fringe.
If you look at the alternative, the ongoing in progress construction of the communist state, and can't make up your mind as to who to vote for or whether or not to vote, WELL
Going back to s strict interpretation of the Founding documents? We would either simplify or have grid lock. If this country can't operate with strict constitutional laws then it has failed and we need to reset with new rules. Hey! honey bring me Karl's and Adolf's books would you?
