Posted on 03/28/2013 4:09:48 PM PDT by Nachum
New York Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduced a bill in Congress on Friday to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which places term limits on the U.S. presidency.
The bill, which has been referred to committee, would allow Barack President Obama to become the first president since Franklin Roosevelt to seek a third term in office.
H.J. Res. 15 proposes “an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.”
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Let me guess, I won’t even look at the article. The congressman is a democrat.
That didn’t stop Jerry Brown.
The Governor shall be elected every fourth year at the same time and places as members of the Assembly and hold office from the Monday after January 1 following the election until a successor qualifies. The Governor shall be an elector who has been a citizen of the United States and a resident of this State for 5 years immediately preceding the Governor’s election. The Governor may not hold other public office. No Governor may serve more than 2 terms.
— Article V, Section 2, Constitution of California.
Wait. Somebody thinks this could be passed and sent to the states where 39 of them would ratify it?
Within the next 3 years?
That is some mighty powerful LSD somebody got their hands on.
Yeah, in January 2009, after the African communist Ubama had already been elected.
What's your point?
To be more specific, Jose Serrano introduced bills to repeal the 22nd Amendment in 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and now 2013.
Serrano is clearly eccentric and obsessed. What's his game?
He seems to have an issue with the 22nd Amendment.
In all it’s history all the 22nd has ever done was deprive us of a third term of Reagan.
And, arguably, a third term of Clinton. And a fourth.
Reagan was a little long in the tooth by 1988.
Hopefully things would sort out as you suggest. Realistically, when has Obama ever let the Constitution limit his actions? When has Congress really stood up to him? We now have a President who wants to be a dictator. His powerful like-minded backers are determined to make it so "by any means necessary," to quote from their Marxist-Leninist creed.
Me? Exaggerate for effect?
-PJ
Are you trying to tell me that the 535 buffoons now in the congress aren't the "best and brightest" this country has to offer?
Not to worry, the Rats will introduce an amendment to have it apply to Obama......if it isn’t already included on page 15,493 of this bill.
I hear RuChelle is interested.
Barry is looking more and more like his drunkard, Commie, sperm donor every day. Frank, not O Sr.
There is a straight-faced argument, I think, that a former two-term President could run as a Vice-President, and that would be OK under the 12th Amendment.
No it wouldn’t beause the VP has to meet the exact standards as the prez. Ineligible to run for prez, ineligible to run for vp.
Let's say, for instance, that GWB decided to run for Congress, he won, and then was elected Speaker of the House--third in line for the Presidency. And then let's further say that both the President and VP died in office, making the Speaker of the House the President. Could GWB serve? The language of the 22nd Amemdment certainly seems to support that position, since he wouldn't have been elected to the office of President more than twice.
The VP issue is admittedly a little less black-and-white, but the same principle applies. The 22nd Amendment doesn't address eligibility, just electability.
Yes. I see there are unknown hypothetical situations.
But the idea that the parties would play a game of musical chairs with prez and veep isn’t set up by the Constitution or Amendments.
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