Letters to the Editor
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Reading Material
What? Did someone leave a copy of the Constitution and the Amendments in one of the bathrooms at the White House?
Wonder if they learned anything else.
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And So It Begins
This creeps me out.
If you (like me) think that Nov-Dec 2000 was a coup; the rumblings are going to begin for the 22nd Amendment to be done away with...just wait...
Well; maybe that's a little over the top; but the Team Bush and the Christian Taliban and the Rummy/Cheney nexus have to be worried about what happens when they cede power back to the 'hoi'.
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Two quick points:
1. First, this is a worthless article because the "staff" at the White House doesn't make that decision. If Bush were to contemplate a 3rd term I doubt he'd consult the day-to-day people.
2. It breaks the 22nd Amendment? Why is this a problem? It's already the case that the clandestine wiretapping program violated the 1st and 4th ammendment. This would just be par for the course.
3. (bonus point) I would imagine that a 3rd term wouldn't require a vote. Something caused by "terrorism" would happen close to the end of his term and he'd resolutely make (with the AG and VP standing behind him) the assertion that now is not the time to change strategy or to shift power from him to whoever gets voted in to reverse his policies.
I'm not saying it's going to happen but the Fox article is laughable because it supposes a process and decorum if this event were to take place. When has that *ever* been the case with this Administration? I think the reality based community would agree with me that when it comes to the Bush Administration, reality's got nothing to do with it.
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Lots of conservatives were bummed that Reagan couldn't have a third term
Of course, given what we now know about him suffering from Alzheimer's disease, a third Reagan term would have been a trainwreck. (Not that Bush the Elder was all that great, but at least the man had a functioning brain.)
The real question is how on earth could someone who lost his home in the Hurricane Katrina disaster -- and presumably experienced firsthand the full weight of presidential and governmental indifference to his plight -- still consider himself to be a Bush supporter? The human mind is mysterious indeed.
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Let's be careful...
Not to wax conspiratorial, but if I was thinking about the possibility of making a push for a third term, this is exactly how I'd start. Talk down the whole idea as ridiculous (even when no one asked about it). Eventually, your loyal followers start thinking "What a great guy; he doesn't want a third term. Hey, wait a minute. We should convince him to run again". The other side would react very negatively, pointing to the legality of it all, leaving you open to making claims about "activist judges" and liberal lawyers who would rather squabble in court than do what's best for the country. Then, you start talking about changing commanders midstream and what a mistake that would be. George has already let us know publicly that the Iraq war may take six more years; funny how that six years is almost exactly how much time he has left in office plus one more term.
Bush's people don't say these things without an agenda. When the first George in the White House announced he wouldn't run again, it may have been one of the most magnanimous gestures in the history of American politics. If this George announces it, keep your eyes open for the black helicopters.
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What a relief.
Well, good to know there is a limit to their sense of the Constitution having the permanence of a bunch of post-its on your computer monitor. Though I have little doubt if they could get away with it they’d quietly do a “find and replace” on the 22nd Amendment to allow Bush a third term, Arnie to run, flag burning to be punishable by public stoning and gays to never marry (since the public stoning bit on them doesn’t seem to play too well anymore).
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The Supreme Court doesn't have any enforcement power
The President in fact can break the Constitution no matter what the SC says and unless someone from Congress (LOL) steps up and impeaches the President there isn't in fact an awful lot anyone can do. The US is founded on the premise that the government will obey the law. We have an administration that does not believe that. So if they're willing to act in violation of the law and the Constitution anyway and they already have, repeatedly, then there's nothing inherently different about them when it comes to the 22nd Ammendment.
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wtf
seriously, this is news? you mean the president is actually going to follow the constitution? oh wait, i guess that is news.
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The 22nd Amendment?
It would be foolish to assume the criminals in power have any respect whatsoever for the Constitution when it doesn't suit them. You have got to believe this third term idea has been seriously floated. They won't just let go.
What would be in it for the states to ratify such a change to the Constitution? Even blatantly right wing governors and legislatures? Other than, of course, blind allegiance to a facist dictatorship and groveling for its favors.
It would be so much easier if we didn't even have to bother with an election... can you say "trumped up Islamofacist nucular plot?"
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If someone left a copy of the Constitution in the White House bathroom...
...reading material isn't what they'd use it for.
Also, the 22nd Amendment says:
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."
Bush was clearly not elected twice, and can anybody say with a straight face that he's ever acted as President? Seems to me he's eligible for at least one more term, if not two.
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Geez, well that's good news...
Well, I'm certainly glad they're saying no to that, because THE CONSTITUTION DOESN'T ALLOW IT, ANYWAY!!!! Not that that's stopped them in the past...