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   From: nsmontassoc@yahoo.com   
      
   On 5/9/2012 4:40 AM, Obwon wrote:   
   > Constitutional Amendment Not Needed: Congress Already Has a   
   > Remedy   
   >   
   > James Marc Leas, Truthout: "Here is why a constitutional   
   > amendment is not needed to end this disenfranchisement of   
   > the 99 percent. The revolutionary leaders who wrote the   
   > Constitution, fresh from overthrowing the tyranny of King   
   > George, included sufficient checks and balances on all three   
   > branches of government - including the courts - to prevent   
   > the kind of tyranny we now suffer."   
   > Read the Article   
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   > http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tfF60qhj   
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   Only one small problem....It will take a vastly different Congress to   
   get it done. There's no way in hell the Boehner Teabagger Congress is   
   going to come up with any bills under Article III Section 2 of the   
   constitution to nullify the republican court or pursue political money   
   regulation. Likewise the filibustering Senate wont do it either.   
      
   That's why job ONE is to change Congress, but is that likely? As I've   
   said elsewhere it would be nice to get some help for that change from   
   the like minded Occupy movement but I don't see them doing anything   
   constructive so we probably can kiss off any fundamental change in   
   political financing for at least four more years, probably much longer.   
     Sad.   
      
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