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applegrove

(118,778 posts)
Sun Jan 10, 2016, 10:03 PM Jan 2016

Is the GOP meme to redo the constitution because they got nothing? No new policy proposals beyond

the old and discredited cut taxes and cut regulations? They need something sexy and new and like any monarchy want to instill corruption in the constitution? I think so.

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Is the GOP meme to redo the constitution because they got nothing? No new policy proposals beyond (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2016 OP
Their reverence of the Constitution seems to be conditional. Buzz Clik Jan 2016 #1
Everything is conditional with the GOP. Everything. Rex Jan 2016 #2
Even being conditional is conditional LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jan 2016 #3
Yes it's like both traps in their brain have been sprung Rex Jan 2016 #6
This is their new version of a "Contract On America". MohRokTah Jan 2016 #4
They will be the first to tell you they have a Constitutional right to throw out the Constitution world wide wally Jan 2016 #5
They have to redo the Constitution Turbineguy Jan 2016 #7
 

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)
4. This is their new version of a "Contract On America".
Sun Jan 10, 2016, 10:46 PM
Jan 2016

Their base will eat it up as they've been demanding a constitutional convention for decades.

And now they have extremists on the left who also want a constitutional convention. A notable example is Thom Hartmann.

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