#64 goy:
“Once enough calls or applications are counted, it is Congress’ responsibility to then actually call the Convention.
This is where problems will arise – at least if it were to happen between now and November. The current cast of criminal clowns running the Democrat Congress would undoubtedly at first simply ignore the call and, then, only grudgingly drag their feet on calling the actual Convention as they worked desperately to ram through the rest of their agenda before November.”
I would imagine that in our present context, any call for an Amendatory Convention would need to be accompanied by states’ Articles of Secession, kept “in the holster” as a prod to urge the Congress to execute their duty.
IOTW, call the Convention and submit to the People’s discipline, or lose the country.
“If a Convention were called, Given BHO, Pelosi and Reid’s arrogance to date, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if it ended up going something like this.”
Poretto’s fiction aside, I think we’d see pretty much exactly what was seen in the period between Lincoln’s election,(while Buchanan was still in office), and the firing on Fort Sumter.
The Federal Government was paralyzed,(not least of which because Buchanan correctly perceived that he had no legitimate Power to prevent Secession), in that any move it might have undertook would perhaps have precipitated further breakaways.
This is exactly what happened.
And then the issue of United States’ forces remaining on the territory of a foreign nation arose…and the decision was made by the Confederates to resolve the issue by force of arms once Lincoln showed that he planned to resupply Fort Sumter and deliberately occupy the “cork” in the “bottle” of Charleston Harbor.
PS: In your earlier #43 you wrote:
“The left – the useful idiots and sycophants the Democrats (read: socialists) have been exploiting for their own ends – are going to discover that this “victory” does nothing to give them what they want (see also: “social justice”), and everything to take away what they have (their soon-to-be-reconciliation-addicted Democrat majority in Congress).”
They never seem to discover that, though, do they? They will engage in Moonbat Hive-mind sloganeering until their eyes glaze over about say, affordable housing…and then are dismayed when their taxes increase and horrified when “The Voucher People” start moving into THEIR neighborhoods,(and schools).
“It will depend entirely on the viability of The Left Wing Media at that point, and how much of it they can manage to dupe people into believing is All Bush’s Fault™.”
Quite so, and judging from past performance, I’d have to place my wagers on the continued effectiveness of the “Bush/Jones” & “Nixon/Goldstein” model of Media/Political Stalking Horse.
Which is why they NEVER learn…far easier to blame a Bogeyman than remove one’s coconut from one’s rectum,(politically speaking).
