Earlier this year, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul endorsed the Convention of States Project because he knew that Washington would never rein in spending or limit its own power.
The truth of that reality showed itself this week on the Senate floor as Paul's supposedly conservative colleagues rejected a proposed amendment to the Constitution that would require a balanced budget.
The Washington Post reports:
The Senate resoundingly rejected a balanced-budget plan Thursday offered by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). The result was not a surprise. Not even Paul had expected the legislation to pass.
Instead, he said, his aim was to expose what he termed “hypocrisy” on the part of GOP colleagues he accused of forming an “unholy alliance” with Democrats to raise spending and balloon the debt.
“This vote is a litmus test for conservatives,” Paul argued on the Senate floor ahead of the vote, contending that if fellow Republicans didn’t support his resolution, “we are simply the same as the Democrats. We don’t care about the debt.”
But the legislation failed to advance on a vote of 21-76. Similar plans Paul has offered in the past have also failed by wide margins.
Congress is never going to get our nation's finances under control because they have no incentive to do so. As long as they can keep deferring consequences to the next generation, they're going to keep funding their pet projects at the expense of our children and grandchildren.
It's time to hold them accountable. It's time to call an Article V Convention of States.
A Convention of States is controlled by the states -- not the feds -- and has the power to propose a complete package of constitutional amendments that shrink the debt and deficit and force our federal officials to cut the budget.
