No army ever won a war playing defense. Political parties can't expect to win by playing defense, and as long as the Republican party insists on playing defense, it will lose.
It is time to go on the offensive using the only weapon we have left--the initiative process. Actually, that is what the Democrats did a few years ago with Amendments 23 and 27.
We could make things pretty painful with some one or two sentence initiatives:
Take the Supreme Court, an institution which believes itself to be above the plain language of the constitution.
"No member of the State Supreme Court or lower court judge who ignores the plain language of the state or Federal Constitution may claim immunity or use public funds in any way when sued for damages by any person unless they prevail. This amendment specifically authorizes these lawsuits."
The neat thing about this is that the courts would suddenly find it in their interest to become more conservative in their interpretation of the Constitution even if the judges were liberals.
We have a governor who doesn't seem to have much respect for the Constitution. How about the legislature?
What are any of these folks going to say-that they have a right to ignore the plain language of the constitution? That will go over with the public like a lead balloon.
I agree wholeheartedly that it's time to go on the (counter)offensive - the current majority on our state Supreme Court is trampling our constitution, and must be stopped.
However, they ARE answerable to the people of Colorado. Three of the most egregriously bad supreme court justices (including the most partisan offender, Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey) are up for retention in the next election (2010). The people of this state have the opportunity to throw out the rascals...
Follow this link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=IjyXQFFpAH8O_2fIvqv47C8w_3d_3d to take a survey on whether the current crop should be impeached or retained...
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Posted by: Captain Arapahoe | March 19, 2009 at 07:15 PM