After sitting on the sidelines for 25 years I got back into the Article V game about a year ago for one reason: timing. The Obamacare website fiasco, and the realization that people were seeing that the emperor had no clothes, told me the time was right. People have had it with Washington, they don’t see a solution to the mess we’re in. We knew we needed change, but didn’t really know where to look. Congressional Republicans? Give us a break. People don’t trust Obama, Congress, Republicans, Democrats, Reid, Pelosi, Boehner, McConnell, Hillary, or any of the Republican Presidential hopefuls — no one.
What can be done? Article V. A movement and a moment in perfect alignment. We have had a perfect political environment for our cause.
The moment is changing, of course. It always does. Reid out, McConnell in. But nothing will be solved. I’m betting Obama digs in his heels. He’ll do amnesty by executive order, and won’t care too much about the political consequences. So we’re in for two more years of trench warfare. No grand bargains. No entitlement reform. No fiscal reform. No significant tax reform. We’re still in a hole, and we’re still digging. Article V’s ideal political environment will continue.
From the Article V perspective this is all good. We want people to continue to despise what’s happening in D.C. It proves our point: we need systemic change, a fundamental reordering of our politics, a return of power and responsibility away from Washington, back to the states, and the people. The momentum we in the Task Force feel in our favor will continue. Especially if we flip Kentucky, Maine, or Washington. Two out of three would do.
And that momentum will be tangible, plain to see. One state at a time. We’ll get to 25. Then we’ll get to 26, and 27, and 28, and 29, and 30. And then people will realize there is hope, there is a solution, something really can be done to save this country and its Constitution. I can’t say when this realization will take place. But I’m confident it will happen.
Then we win.
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