Repealing The 22nd Amendment January 13, 2009
Posted by The Underground Conservative in 22nd Amendment, Barack Hussein Obama, Democrats.trackback
I predicted this would happen. I’d say “See, I told you so,” but Rush may have that trademarked.
The drumbeat to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which limits a president to two terms, has begun in the House of Representatives.
Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) has introduced H.R. 5 to repeal the term limits on presidents.
And as Ed Morrissey points out:
Maybe I’m just being too cynical, but somehow I doubt that Rep. José Serrano introduced HJ Res 5 in order to allow George W Bush to run for a third term in office.
The goal, of course, is to make Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama, Our Messiah, the Second Coming of Christ, our ruler for life.
Alarming thing is, this has a decent chance of passing the constitutionally mandated ⅔rds of both houses of Congress — dominated by Democrats and girlie men Republicans — and get passed by 38 state legislatures within seven years. Given there is absolutely no chance The Messiah won’t win a landslide re-election bid in 2012 — I wouldn’t be surprised if the Republicans nominate Him as their candidate too — He could be in power for 25 years or longer.
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“[The President] is the dignified, but accountable magistrate of a free and great people. The tenure of his office, it is true, is not hereditary; nor is it for life: but still it is a tenure of the noblest kind: by being the man of the people, he is invested; by continuing to be the man of the people, his investiture will be voluntarily, and cheerfully, and honourably renewed.”
–James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791
Oh, hell, Jim Sensenbrenner was trying to do the same thing in 2005. With the support of Dems, which is weird. I bet if I tried searching back longer, I’d find the same effort under every president since Truman.
If you decided to search on this, I’d be interested to see if anyone introduced similar bills BEFORE someone was even inaugurated (excluding those who were currently currently sitting presidents when it was introduced, as in your example), as Rep. Serrano is doing.
This same bill was introduced by this same guy when Clinton was on his way out. The only difference is that the house and senate are very democrat right now.