Thursday, 01 Apr 2010 11:58 AM
Leading the list as issue No. 1: "Protect the Constitution: Each bill will have to identity the specific provision of the Constitution that gives Congress the power to do what the bill does." Nearly 81 percent of the respondents liked this idea.
The second most popular issue: "Reject cap and trade: Stop costly new regulations that would increase unemployment, raise consumer prices, and weaken the nation's global competitiveness with virtually no impact on global temperatures."
Tea party officials want to block the cap and trade tax, whether by congressional act or by the Environmental Protection Agency. Nearly 71 percent of respondents supported this plank.
Issue No. 3 was a a balanced budget:
"Demand a balanced budget: Begin the Constitutional amendment process to require a balanced budget with a two-thirds majority needed for any tax hike." That plank received the approval of 69.9 percent of respondents.
Ryan Hecker is the 29-year-old Houston attorney advocated Contract from America concept. What got Hecker interested in this?
"It was my frustration with the Republican Party's lack of legitimacy on economic-conservative issues," he explains. "They no longer represented for me a proxy for my beliefs on the economic front. So this idea came from that. I thought, 'How do we move this country back into an economic conservative direction if that's not where it seems either party is headed. And then it just fit perfectly within the tea party movement."
Rightardia comment: We doubt if plank number one would ever work. The GOP always throws away the US Constitution 'in time of war.' The wiretapping of the Internet and Guantanamo detention are examples of this as well as the secret prisons in Eastern Europe and Egypt. There would be more resistance on the part of the GOP to this than on the part of the Democrats.
We will find out after the 2010 elections if 'cap and trade' is still viable. The Democrats need to get the economy and employment roaring again before they worry about "cap and trade."
The balanced budget has been a political pipe dream for a long time. The Obama PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) is the practice of financing expenditures with funds that are currently available rather than borrowed is already in effect.
Again, such as amendment would have a bigger impact on Republicans than Democrats. However, trying to balance the budget in an emergency like a war of big recession is probably a bad idea. A Constitutional Amendment is a big deal and takes years. It also requires 2/3rds of the House and Senate to propose a new amendment and 3/4ths of the states to ratify.
source: NewsMax
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