Tea Party coalition forming to push for balanced budget amendment

[JohnEngland]

Looks like Rand Paulism is leading the Tea Party here:



A new Tea Party coalition is in the works, The Daily Caller has learned, to begin an organized push for an amendment to the constitution requiring that the federal budget be balanced every year.

The coalition, named BBA Now, as in Balance Budget Amendment Now, plans to officially unveil its three-year plan in September, director of coalitions Kellen Giuda said in an interview. Part of the campaign includes petitioning 2010 congressional candidates, as well as presidential candidates in 2012, to sign a pledge in support of the effort.

http://dailycaller.com/2010/08/19/tea-party-coalition-forming-to-push-for-balanced-budget-amendment/

[xd9fan]

http://libertypulse.com/blog/2010/04/07/kevin-gutzman-explains-article-5-convention/

I'm still waiting for the ultimate constitutional tool

For 30 states to call for a convention and for 38 states to radify it.

Washingtondc not NOT selfcure Washingtondc......sorry

[erowe1]

This looks like another example of the Tea Party movement just being an arm of the GOP. Balanced budget amendments are frauds.

[gls]

This looks like another example of the Tea Party movement just being an arm of the GOP. Balanced budget amendments are frauds.

Agreed. It's a way to appear serious about fiscal responsibility while in actuality posing no real threat to the deficit-funded establishment. It is very, very difficult to pass a constitutional amendment, especially one that would take funding away from the state legislatures who would be voting on it.

If they want to stop the out-of-control spending, they would filibuster raising the so-called "debt ceiling" -- which is the pledge Peter Schiff ran on. Anything else is just talk from unprincipled politicians telling voters what they want to hear.