XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.home.repair, talk.politics.guns   
   From: governor.swill@gmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 14:55:11 +0000, Mitchell Holman  wrote:   
      
   >"Scout"  wrote in   
   >news:v5rr7g$ig9m$1@dont-email.me:   
   >   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> "Mitchell Holman"  wrote   
      
   >>>      Amendments do not "start at the bottom".   
   >>>   
   >>>      They start with Congress.   
   >>   
   >> Not necessarily. The states can get together propose, define, write   
   >> and ratify Amendments without Congress having a word to say about it.   
   >>   
   >> Ref: Convention of States   
   >   
   >   
   >     That has never happened.   
   >   
   True   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>> We have to refuse to accept regular deficits as normal. We have to   
   >>>> hold them accountable and those not serious about it, don't get   
   >>>> reelected.   
   >>>   
   >>>     Even "deficit hawks" don't care   
   >>> about deficit spending if it brings   
   >>> money to THEIR home district.   
   >>   
   >> Which makes voting them out or bypassing them altogether a viable   
   >> course of action.   
   >   
   >   
   >     Show us where that has ever happened.   
      
   Yes, Scout, please show us when a Convention of State ever proposed and passed   
   an   
   amendment.   
      
   Then give us you scenario for passing a term limits amendment in the current   
   political   
   environment.   
      
   Swill   
      
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