DeMint Will Try to Organize a Convention of States

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2017/06/12/demint-will-try-organize-convention-states/

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Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC),” ousted last month as head of the Heritage Foundation think tank, is joining a fast-growing, conservative movement that is pushing states to seek a constitutional convention to rein in federal spending and power,” USA Today reports.

“DeMint, a prominent figure among the Tea Party activists who helped Republicans seize control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, will serve as a senior adviser to the Convention of the States Project, providing a jolt to its efforts to marshal grassroots support for a state-led movement to amend the U.S. Constitution.”

Jonathan Swan: “A large and growing number of conservatives — the Convention of States project boasts more than 2.2 million supporters throughout the country — are concluding that the election of Donald Trump will do little to change the permanent bureaucracy in Washington.”


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[Lindsay]

1. Fundamentalist Christian Theocracy,

here we come.

[DFW]

2. Oh, I wouldn't say Trump hasn't changed the DC bureaucracy

After all, he has neutered the departments of (among others) Education, HUD, Energy as well as the EPA--all to the country's severe detriment. This has to be music to Putin's, er, I mean, DeMint's ears. What's his problem? Not enough people starving yet in California, or what?

[elleng]

3. OY!

[DFW]

5. LOL!!

Or, as they say in France, "euille"

[elleng]

6. Oui! Mon dieu!

Gevalt!

[DFW]

7. An old friend of mine who passed away last year used to say

"I speak 35 languages, 17 of which are Yiddish."

I speak 9 languages, but none of them are Yiddish. I have to get around to that one of these days. We're only a 4 hour flight from Israel, and we've never been there. For that matter, we're only a 2 hour flight from Rome, and we've never been there, either.

[elleng]

9. Well I speak 2,

and only a sprinkling of Yiddish. Never been to Israel; Rome, several times. You'd love Rome! (she said with confidence!) You'd surely love the food!

[DFW]

10. And I speak Italian!

I know, I know, speaks Italian and has never been to Rome, what kind of cultural failure am I?

[trof]

14. Dang, DFW, whachu bin doin'?

See Rome.

[DFW]

33. I know. Sono pazzo, right?

But damn, man I still got a day job that puts me in a different country every day as it is. I'm lucky I can drag my wife out to Prague, Budapest, Stockholm, Dubrovnik or Barcelona for a weekend. That's the trouble when these places are so near. You always think there's time until there isn't any more. It took us 20 years before we even visited the Neander Valley and its museum, which is only one of the most famous archaeological sites in the frigging WORLD. We waited until we had a visitor from Moscow who wanted to see it, and it is a 20 minute DRIVE from our door!!!! (Neander Valley in German is "Neandertal" in case the English didn't ring a bell).

EVERYONE says see Rome and See Venice. We gotta do it, you're right. Maybe we'll steal a long weekend this fall?

[lastlib]

34. I Never Been To Spain.....

(...but I kinda like the music........)

Of course, I've never been to Osawatomie, Kansas, either, and it's only an hour's drive from my home.

[DFW]

35. Spain or Osawatomie, decisions, decisions............

I understand your reluctance to state a preference as to which to visit first...................

[Warren DeMontague]

4. Fine, then let's admit that this whole Union thing isn't really working out, while we're at it.

Sinful, Heathen folks who live in Los Angeles really don't have very much in common with Heritage Foundation-minded residents of South Carolina, now, do they.

You want to establish a Theocracy, we don't. We like sex, legal weed and nudity on cable tv, you are still traumatized by naked breasts and the female orgasm.

If you're going to junk the Constitution, don't be half-assed about it.

[dhill926]

11. can California trade Arizona and Utah....

for Oregon, Washington and Hawaii? Pleeeeze......

[Warren DeMontague]

12. Yeah, that's probably not gonna work, I agree

That was the best map I could find, sorry.

I'd be all for a Union of Pacific States. Or Greater Weedistan, if you will.

[Aristus]

13. I predict California wil become its own republic.

The western counties of Washington and Oregon will likely coalesce into an embryonic form of the long hoped-for Republic of Cascadia. Northern California may join us if they choose.

A Union of Pacific States as demarcated on your map would be perfectly acceptable to me.

[roamer65]

18. The general area of CA, NV, UT, AZ and CO used to be the Mexican state of Alta California.

History does not repeat, but it often rhymes.

[Aristus]

21. Yeah, they were.

That's why I tend to roll my eyes at the bigoted histrionics of the anti-immigration right-wing. Many of my patients are undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central America. As far as I'm concerned, they didn't cross the border; the border crossed them.

[applegrove]

16. As long as the Constitution is being opened up California should get 20 more senators.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. EXCELLENT point.

Enough of this disproportionate representation shit, skewing the country far to the right. That's what these jackholes don't get- there are way more of us, than there are of them.

[trof]

17. Aw fuck. I'm gonna have to move from Dixie to New England?

Shit, man. It gets COLD up there.
And it snows and shit.
It FREEZES.
Try to drive and off you go, slip sliding all over the goddam place and winding up in a ditch behind a snowbank and they don't find you until a month after spring thaw.
jeez

[roamer65]

20. New England and NY would join the Canadian confederation.

They are more Canadian than American now, anyway.

I think MN and MI would soon follow.

[Beartracks]

27. That is certainly not fair to New Mexico!

Might need to split the eastern counties off to Texas, but the rest could join with greater California.

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[Warren DeMontague]

30. that specific map isn't how I would do it, either.

[Eliot Rosewater]

8. They will get it, and then Putin steps in when real patriots, i.e. liberals

say bye bye.

Putin will already have a stronghold here but he is just waiting for something to happen that forces the patriots to act.

[hedda_foil]

15. I don't think some here get that this is a full Constitutional Convention. Theocracy here we come.

They were only one state short last year of having the required number of States to overturn the Constitution and democracy itself. This is what our owners have been working toward since the 70's if not earlier. The Kochs and their coterie have spent all that money on this future.

[still_one]

26. I don't think they have 38 states

[roamer65]

19. So what are they gonna do when some states tell them shove ratification up their ass?

Not all liberals are gun phobic.

[workinclasszero]

22. Republic of Gilead

Coming right up folks. Get ready for prosperity/dominunist sharia law dictatorship.

These slime will destroy every right we have taken for granted.

Look for Fox News and hate radio to start pushing this hard.

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. "more than 2.2 million supporters"...so less than 1% of Americans want this.

Tyranny of the majority, bad, tyranny of the minority, A-OK! Got it.

[milestogo]

24. We should amend the Constitution to limit the powers of the Presidency.

I'm serious.

[DefenseLawyer]

25. Jim Demint was too crazy for the Heritage Foundation

That, my friends, is pretty goddamn crazy.

[bresue]

28. Divide the Rub party? Awesome....

Leaves Dems with a majority....I won't cry!

[spanone]

29. these people want to eliminate our government. destroy it.

not make it better....kill it.

'I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub'

grover norquist

[Initech]

32. This is exactly why I'm 110% against the idea of a constitutional convention.

Do want these motherfuckers changing it? I don't!

[Vinca]

36. If he's going to all that trouble, let's have a vote to split the country.

He can keep Crazyland with its low taxes, no healthcare and bodies of poor people in the streets and we'll go about our business in Sanetopia without having to support red states.