Mike Conaway: “If we only could do one constitutional amendment in the next 10 years, let's do this one. Think back. I wonder who those…”

“If we only could do one constitutional amendment in the next 10 years, let's do this one. Think back. I wonder who those 35 Senators were in 1995 who all voted ``no'' on the balanced budget amendment, if any of them are still in Congress, if we could point to one of them and say, Had you voted ``yes'' in 1995, then surely during the surplus years we experienced in the late 1990s, it's easy to pass a balanced budget at that point in time because nobody's pig's getting stuck. We would have avoided trillions and trillions of dollars in debt had one Senator moved over in 1995. It would be interesting to see if any of those 35 who voted ``no'' are still in the Congress right now and would fess up to having a good slug of this problem. My colleagues all know that anybody can start a diet tomorrow. The easiest diet is the diet you start tomorrow. Wait until you start a diet today. The single greatest threat to our way of life is not al Qaeda. It is not the Islamist jihadists, as bad as they are. They will get some of us, but they will not get all of us.”