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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

I'll Take Crazy For The Win!

You have a problem?  Best to overreact to it. That's what Bear Grylls would do.

So there's this.

Basically, the middling extreme elements of the GOP want to introduce a constitutional amendment that would allow 2/3rds of the state legislatures to veto an act of Congress.

Right, because the problem we have right now is law making is just TOO efficient!

Of course, this would be a return to the Articles of Confederation model, whereby the states could veto any act of Congress, although to be fair ANY state under the Articles could enact a veto.  And with this amendment, Congress could override the state's veto.

The sponsors are Enzi (WY), Barasso (WY), Hatch (UT) in the Senate and Broun (GA Insane), Griffith (VA) and Bishop (UT) in the House.  So basically, Bigamists and Secessionists.

Ironically, this makes them LESS extreme than the GOP members who are advocating a return to the doctrine of nullification.  Since nullification was discredited by Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln (each in their own way), I guess even the Teatards in Congress know they can't rely on that musty and ineffectual old doctrine.

Their plan is to call a Constitutional Convention to embrace this proposal.  I guess they think that since there's no way the Congress will voluntarily give up the power to, you know, legislate, they will rely on the states to supersede Washington.

You can just smell the black powder and hear the fife and drums, can't you.

I have a counterproposal.

If you want to hold a constitutional convention, you have to hold a constitutional convention.  So I propose an amendment that would strip corporations of the rights of citizenship.  Maybe one that also establishes an ironclad right to privacy.

Let's see which one would be more popular.

Let's see who would blink first.

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