Repeal of 22nd ammendment not a complete hoax

[Taverner]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/6/15/145040/394

A resolution has been drafted in the House of Representatives to repeal the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution. If you can't remember that one from your High School Civics class, let me refresh your memory:

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.

H. J. RES. 24 was sponsored by Representatives Hoyer, Sensenbrenner, Berman, Sabo and Pallone. The resolution awaits the House Judiciary Committe to schedule hearings and vote. Here's the entire text of the resolution that could one day become an Amendment to the Constitution:

The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.

[shadowknows69]

1. Fuck that

Just fuck that, I don't even care if it does mean Clinton could run again. I wouldn't care if JFK was stil alive and could run again. We don't have Kings here.

[Debi]

3. Heh, I just said essentially that below

Hey, don't know what all is going on but saw another post.

:hi: Hope all is well with you.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. That's right

I believe the reason Washington didn't run for a third term in office, which he could have easily had, because he feared it would result in him becoming too like a monarch.

[MonkeyFunk]

19. How is a 12 or 16 year presidency

equivalent to having a King?

If americans want to vote for somebody for a third term, let them. The only time it ever happened, it served us pretty well.

[Bucky]

29. In the words of Thomas Jefferson...

The second feature {about the Constitution} I dislike, and greatly dislike, is the abandonment in every instance of the necessity of rotation in office, and most particularly in the case of the President. Experience concurs with reason in concluding that the first magistrate will always be re-elected if the constitution permits it. He is then an officer of life. This once observed it becomes of so much consequence to certain nations to have a friend or a foe at the head of our affairs that they will interfere with money and with arms.

Today, of course, the problem isn't having a friend or foe of "certain nations" stuck in the White House for too long, but for a friend of Halliburton or General Dynamics or Exxon squatting term after glad handing term in the people's house.

[Debi]

2. Four more years of Bill Clinton???? n/t

[durtee librul]

20. Whaddya think you're gonna get if you vote for

Hillary?

[WinkyDink]

25. The person Bill said is smarter than him.

[Debi]

26. Oh my! n/t

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

4. Ironic, isn't it?

It was the GOP who got the amendment passed in the first place, because they were mad that FDR was elected four times.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. The 22nd was Repug's revenge against FDR ... now they want it repealed?

What, did they just realize Bill Clinton was better for their party than Bu**sh** has been?

[Ignacio Upton]

21. Perhaps they're planning on digging up Reagan?

If this amendment is passed, then we'll have Zombie Reagan 2012!

[eppur_se_muova]

Looks as lifelike as ever. nt

[TZ]

7. umm I have no faith in the electorate in some ways

that could also mean 4 more years of Chimpy. I would really not have that Amemdment repealed.

[Marie26]

8. Yeah, it is. nt

[ixion]

9. This would also be added to that text, no doubt:

"Long Live Booosh!"

[tammywammy]

10. Not going to happen any time soon

Even if Congress passed an Amendment repealing the 22nd, it would still have to be ratified by 2/3 of the states.

[Occulus]

11. That thread is from 2005 n/t

[Taverner]

14. Yes - it has nothing to do with RR's hoax

But it was mulled over recently

[Ezlivin]

12. It's .... so .... hard .... to .... relinquish .... power

Either martial law or an overturning of the 22nd amendment is just what these guys want.

They act like it's not a government but a corporation and the CEO can stay on as long as the board permits.

Time to open Gitmo for some new occupants!

[Catch22Dem]

13. This is old

This is when the fucktards were still ruling the roost. Now it will never make it out of committee. Even repukes were against it because they knew it would mean Clinton could run again and he'd wipe the floor with *'s carcass without even trying.

[WiseButAngrySara]

16. ROFL! I would love to witness that. .....n/t

[SharonAnn]

15. No one should be president for more than 8 years. No one. Out of 300 million people,

surely we have many who could be elected to that office.

If we can't get someone else elected then it is our system that needs repair.

More of the "same old, same old" will never keep a democracy vibrant.

I don't care how good someone is, how popular someone is, we just have to get used strengthening the structures of democracy and notting getting locked into "personality cults".

[Pyrzqxgl]

17. Why don't we limit lobbyists terms to eight years too.

some of those guys have been in Washington so long they have moss on their butts.

[Bucky]

28. That is a BRILLIANT idea! I love it!

It'll never happen (violates the first amendment's right to petition the government), but it would be a great way of riding herd on people who exercise undue influence.

[MonkeyFunk]

18. good

it was a ridiculous amendment in the first place.

The country got by just fine without it for a very long time.

I don't like telling people who they can or can't vote for. If I want Clinton again, I should be able to vote for him.

[sutz12]

22. I'd go the other way... add Reps and Sens.....term limits....nt

[WinkyDink]

23. They should be careful of what they wish for.......

[Wiley50]

24. HOYER!!! I knew I didn't trust the guy n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

27. Maybe the word "elected" holds the key

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice"

Maybe Chimpy will finally admit that he wasn't really elected in 2000 but was appointed instead by the Supreme Court. Therefore, he's got a whole new 4 year term coming to him.