Breitbart:
Tom Coburn, former Republican senator from Oklahoma, talked about his new book, Smashing the DC Monopoly: Using Article V to Restore Freedom and Stop Runaway Government, on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily.
Coburn explained to SiriusXM host Alex Marlow that the “D.C. monopoly” of the title refers to Washington’s outsized role in making decisions for states, municipalities, and even individual citizens.
“In New York State, Oklahoma, Kansas, and every other state, if you look at the money raised in-state, an unelected federal bureaucrat tells you how to spend 60 percent of it – how you must spend 60 percent of it, and what the rules are,” he explained.
He said this was contrary to the American ideal of individuals deciding their own futures and shaping the future of their communities through city councils and state legislatures.
“The way to smash this republic is by using Article V to re-establish and return the Constitution to the relationship that it was intended to be,” Coburn said. “What that means is a limited federal government with decisions made at state houses and local communities, and the federal government doing what it was supposed to do, the limited role that it’s supposed to have.”
“The assumption of a monopoly usually is, when they have such great power, there’s no consideration given for anybody else’s thought,” he observed. “So ask yourself the question, ‘How well is Washington working today? How well is Congress working today?’ They’re not, and the cost to bear them is tremendous.” more here
What’s taking so long? To much talk, not enough action.
Getting 34 states to agree what the name of the planet is would be a herculean task let alone a constitutional convention where they all agree on the changes without each state demanding their own little change here and there. I wish the former Senator the best of luck.
I’ve been hearing this for decades. It’s never going to happen.
Sorry…
Never going to happen.
It will happen because of the last 8 y
ears, and the lack of Conservatives in the swamp.and because there are enough Brain dead, and illegal, and DEAD liberal voters that make it conceivable it could happen again.
Pressure congress to enforce the laws already on the books.
A Constitutional Convention is such a bad idea. It would allow any or all parts of the Constitution be Modified, Removed, or Completely Rewritten. Who in government today do you trust with “Keys to the Car”?
I’ll take my Constitution old school, with a side of Ammendments. Thank you.
I agree it could happen. But an unprecedented crisis is required to lead up to it. AND, there’s no guarantee the outcome will be an Article V Convention.
A constitutional convention would wipe OUT any chance of
big liberals changing anything, as they are out countied by
conservative states.
It will not happen.