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Originally Posted by glatt
Politicians who throw around the idea of constitutional amendments lose major points in my book. It's virtually impossible to amend the Constitution. It's not just an act of congress signed into law by the president, it requires 2/3s majority in BOTH houses and then goes to the individual states and must clear through 3/4s of them. That's 38 states that each have to approve the proposed amendment. It isn't easy. The equal rights amendment never made it through. Anything that is remotely political isn't going to make it. For example, think of the political climate in Arizona and the political climate in Massachusetts. There aren't too many issues that both states are going to get behind. That's the divide you have to bridge.
Politicians who talk about Constitutional amendments are just full of shit.
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I wouldn't go so far as to say that they are "full of shit", well at least no more than the rest of them and Obama, now if you said they were all pretty much "full of shit", I would agree with you completely. The idea that we can't figure out a way to mandate a balanced budget through some process or the other does not mean that we can't explore ideas to address, this is just another idea in my book. But if this thing fails I predict Obama and a host of other politicans, both R's and D's, are going to go down in flames come 2012, as they should.