which is to vote for ever more extreme measures that don't have a snowball's chance in hell of becoming law is that it might actually convince people that they're serious about reducing the deficit. Of course whenever they're really in power they run up enormous deficits (see Reagan, Bush II, and to a lesser extent Bush I).
I particularly enjoyed the congressman who brought up abortion when the Democrats were pointing out how their stupid amendment would affect children. No doubt they'd do that to defend themselves if they were proposing that the children of parents who defaulted be sold into slavery to pay their creditors. The sad thing is, I think a lot of religious people would probably buy it then too. I've spent enough time on conservative religious blogs to know that nothing else matters to them. No matter what the Republicans do, many will never fail to vote for them and most of the rest will never consider voting Democrat.
Update: Okay, I've got the text of the amendment. It's basically the same idiotic supermajority requirement (with three-fifths instead of two-thirds) for tax increases and (practically) for budgets that California has (or had, they got rid of the budget part last year, thank goodness). It doesn't apply to times of war, so it's basically a dead letter since we're always at war nowadays. That makes it even dumber.
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