As the Liberty Amendments is now available for sale, it’s time we begin a genuine discussion here about the ideas behind the book’s proposals, along with the pushback we’re likely to see from, among others, Harry Reid’s good buddy and fellow 31-year Senate fixture, John McCain and the establicans, who will be guarding their power as jealously as the Democrats.
The Party of the Status Quo — the less left part of a single-party, statist Leviathan posing as a two-party adversarial structure — will be out with the long knives once the book takes off (assuming it does; the first strategy to combat it will be to ignore it, but with Levin’s reach, and the help of Cavuto, Hannity, Limbaugh, Palin, Cruz, et al) — they’ll sniff that such radical thinking is an attempt to change the Constitution, which they like just fine, thanks; or that what Levin proposes is too adversarial, that history will ebb and flow and that America will come through as it always has.
In short, they’ll hedge, misrepresent, speak in platitudes, and protect their own interests. Not ours. And this plan is designed specifically to reclaim our interests from an entrenched power structure that has come to believe it has us boxed out.
I look forward to the discussions.
Levin mentioned that later in the week he’ll be doing a one hour TV appearance to discuss the book and the ideas in it. This is, for Levin, unusual, as he generally avoids TV.
The next step in the evolution of the TEA Party movement, as I’ve been advocating, is taking back state authority; much like a vampire, the feds have to be invited in before they can rape your women and suck the life out of you. Time to answer the door in a garlic suit and with a big fat NO prepared for all their enticing advances.
The GOP Governors who sold out on the ObamaCare exchanges being the dried out, pale husks that should serve as a cautionary tale.
You can watch the video here, courtesy of Brian at The Right Scoop.
Or you can watch shorter version, such as the Mediate clip that centers on the more important question, why does Levin yell on the radio?
This is, for Levin, unusual, as he generally avoids TV.
Someone must have talked to him, or he figured out on his own that he was going to have to make appearances on TV to make the most of this book’s impact.
I heard him on Hannity’s radio show discussing the Amendments. They’re all good ideas, but I’d be happy with term limits, repeal of the 17th Amendments and a requirement similar to my state’s that tax increases be approved by the voters. The bureaucracy amendments are great, too.
Nonetheless, I note we still live in a country where the enemy controls the educational system and which as tens of trillions of dollars of unfunded liabilities, neither of which will change no matter how many amendments are passed. I’ll say it again, the problem is not in our founding ideas or documents; the problem is in our own souls. It is in the hearts of Men. The majority of us no longer know the “why” of America. We elect leaders like ourselves who are more interested in feathering their own nests than being statesmen.
There would have to be a purge of the zombies inside the Beltway, as well as within Academe before we could be made whole again as a nation. That’s a tougher job in my view than merely reaffirming what the founders meant and said in 1789.
There would have to be a purge of the zombies inside the Beltway,
Isn’t one of the proposals to limit the bureaucrats themselves? You can’t have a lifetime career at the EPA, for example?
Also, it IS true that the amendments themselves can’t solve the whole problem.
The debate ABOUT the amendments, however — the hue and cry, the fuss, the much ado about everything — will pique the curiosity of many, and some will, for the first time, start thinking about what has been done to us in our name.
I say we tackle and promote term limits first. I caught a bit of him on Hannity yesterday during my commute home. I applaud and welcome ML’s initiative but his approach assumes honest willing patriotic politicians at the State level.
. . . his approach assumes honest willing patriotic politicians at the State level.
I’m not sure this is so. Why would this be? He’s no fool, after all. He may (I do not know, for not having read his book), he may be intent on the work and involvement of those who are most directly concerned with the current misgovernment of our politics: namely, ourselves. But this is, as I wish to make clear, a guess on my part.
– Leading from the 15th hole…Fore!!!!!
“It has been determined by senior foreign policy officials in this administration to not make a determination, but rather to engage in a dialogue with the interim government of Egypt…”
– Translation: “If procrastination, shipping illegal arms to terror groups, drone strikes on civilians, or golfing is applicable to whatever is going on then we’re good to go, otherwise we’re screwed.”
….what has been done to us in our name.
– Its also been done to us with not a few of us that know better standing by and letting it happen.
– I have no sympathy. A Republic if we can keep it wasn’t just a pithy saying.
ferr, I have not read the book either but hearing him outline the concepts on the radio yesterday he mentioned the option of amending the US Constitution by initiatives from the State level.
…assumes honest willing patriotic politicians at the State level.
Simple fix.
Texas model for state legislatures. Pay: $7,200 per year. In session: 140 days every two years. Honest or not, if they wanna live above the poverty line they better have a day job.
Texas. 12th largest economy on planet Earth. Just saying.
I’m down for whatever doesn’t have me addressing children starting with the sentence, “First they came for the rodeo clowns and I said nothing because I wasn’t a rodeo clown…”
Jesus wept.
But recourse to the form of Article V. is not recourse to a character of politician — rather, it is recourse to the direct interests of the sovereign people of the United States, organized as it is in blended sovereignties of people, state and nation.
Lamontyoubigdummy says August 14, 2013 at 1:32 pm
Texas model for state legislatures. Pay: $7,200 per year. In session: 140 days every two years. Honest or not, if they wanna live above the poverty line they better have a day job.
Limiting power and pay like this will do more than any “term limits” plan will ever do. If the power, influence and money stays high, we’ll just end up with puppeteers as “staffers” who make all the real decisions while the figureheads rotate in and out.
Definitely the weakest (and least necessary) part of the plan.
What makes legitimacy in the United States? Is legitimacy made or found in the edict of a single man, a ruler, a king or queen? No. Legitimacy is found in the consent of the governed. And at the present time we the governed find ourselves not consenting to laws imposed upon us, and waived for the ruling classes.
– Trouble in the Clintonville county seat of Oz.
– Besides it makes a good distraction from Bumblefucks bumbling in Egypt.
Maybe if the rodeo clown was reciting Cowboy Poetry…
mondamay,
There was a time when the best and brightest of men had to be damn near guilt-tripped into leaving their profitable enterprises, and serving a short period as a Senator or Congressman out of a sense of duty.
The Founders were the same way. Names like Adams and Jefferson bounced about for a long time in early American politics, but, between being called, they always went back home to farms, businesses, and family. Hell, while in office, they wrote about wishing they were back home with farms, businesses, and family.
The Founders themselves set the Nation’s new capitol in a malaria-infested Potomac swamp for a reason. To spare the newly minted Americans from federal over reach.
The “grand idea” was not a 51%/49% democratic aristocracy (read tyranny). It was a Republic (if we could keep it). States could handle the vast majority of things themselves.
I’d like to give some thought to whether the Articles of Confederation might not work better now than they did in the 1780s.
No self respecting rodeo clown is going to read “cowboy poetry”.
That shit is for Harry Reid, and…I dunno…Alanis Morrisette.
Or the Indigo Girls.
Possibly the Cranberries.
Oh…and that broad that sang that awful “Where have all the Cowboys Gone?” song.
It’s probable that the children Ashton Kutcher spoke to would approve of the phrase from the Articles of Confederation: “The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union . . .”, so long as some language signifying general disapproval of STD’s were inserted there.
– I don’t hold any fault for the framers in not being able to anticipate the country-wide spread of the DC mentality cancer.
– This will always be the endgame when we allow administrators and elected/unelected bureaucrats to set their own salaries.
– Morsi protester: “We are here trying to save democracy for Egypt….save Egypt from the Jews and Americans…Obama’s drone killing and influence…”
– The Wan is loved universaly….
Tenth Amendment Incorporation
Limiting power and pay like this will do more than any “term limits” plan will ever do.
They don’t leave office as millionaires because of mere pay.
Speaking.
Fees.
the country-wide spread of the DC mentality cancer.
The 17th Amendment was more than a century away.
That and a lot of the kind of behavior that got Martha Stewart in trouble.
I’m with mondamay and Lamont.
Does your husband know?
“so long as some language signifying general disapproval of STD’s were inserted there.”
and approval of lgbtxyz and pikachus
Shhhh.
If you’re going to have a Texas model for the legislature, you for damn sure had better kill off the Federal bureaucracy first.
” better kill off the Federal bureaucracy first.”
yea mike lee should add epa and irs to defund in the cr.
yea mike lee should add epa and irs to defund in the cr.
Baby steps.
us visigoths want to rampage now;)
Shhhh.
You must sleep in the East Wing of Lamont Manor, cuz I never see you.
Would explain all the Febreeze, that errant tooth brush, the missing honeydew melon from the fridge, and the lip stick on page 46 of my leather-bound copy of the Federalist Papers.
You, fair lady, are sneaky. And well read.
The next time somebody accuses me of being a Constitutional fetishist* I’m going to reply that my copy of the Federalist Papers is leather-bound
with a lace bookmark ribbon!
*It will be the first time. But that’s not important right now.
@page 104 havel potpless
go rodeo clown!!11!! @ page 105 havel
@1776
Add playing Spades with Love, which probably worked for 9/11/12 also.
SEX PISTOLS – Anarchy In The UK
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Reagan – “Rendezvous with Destiny”
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