when did it become reasonable to try and force an amendment to the US

[WCGreen]

Constitution on a simple bill to raise the debt crisis...

Could you imagine what would have happened if the Liberal Democrats had insisted on an Equal Right Amendment to a military funding bill?

This is lunacy.

Oh and Boehner learned a new word today, Culdesac.

[Horse with no Name]

1. Not a bad idea....

if they can do it, why can't we?

Oh wait....because we would be labeled obstructionists and ideologues.

[dbt]

2. Any time the Republics don't like something.

The Party Of Small Gumbmint never hesitates to trot out an amendment to make the Constitution, and thereby the Government, LARGER every fucking TIME they imagine that they see something they don't like.

Shoot 'em in the butt with a tranquilizer dart!

[HockeyMom]

3. 2/3 of both Houses of Congress

Plus 3/4 of the legislatures of all the states. Do these people really think they are going to get this? How LONG would this take? YEARS!!!!!!

[WCGreen]

5. It's all a gimick, but they have 7 years by the time it passes both

house to be ratified by the states...

My point was they muddle the whole thing because you and I both know that if this was put into the bill and passed, most of their followers would think that was it, it's in the Constitution and then the RW echo chamber would set to work to say the Un American democrats are thwarting the will of the people... Yada Yada Yada...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. Doesn't that amendment require a 2/3 vote in Congress to ever raise taxes again?

In the media, we never hear about what's actually in the legislation the Republicans are proposing. Such an amendment would probably end up gutting social security and medicare.

What's really funny is the press conference held by Republicans this morning. They were discussing the threat to the United States if one penny of money was taken away from the Pentagon. Out of one side of their mouths, they said we don't have a revenue problem. Moment later, out of the other side, they said that only by growing the economy will revenue be raised to save programs like social security. So the problem is or in't lack of revenue? When a reporter asked how they propose to save entitlement programs and still maintain high spending for defense without raising taxes, one of the Republican idiots told him that he was free to send a contribution to Washington out of his own money if he choose to do so.