June 23, 2009
That is the question posed by S. E. Cupp today in FoxForum.
Maybe he’s thinking this is all above his paygrade. His job, after all, is to campaign, look pretty, speak smarmily, and run roughshod over the Constitution and the United States Code.
Not to actually do something, or, heaven forbid, lead.
That’s for lesser mortals than he.
June 22, 2009
Michelle Obama in her White House Garden
In honor of Michelle’s successful harvest last week of veggies from her patch at the White House, I’ve decided she needs a new name evocative of her achievements. First Hoe comes to mind. Or possibly, First Hoer.
Actually, it’s really a great thing that she’s done. After all, they needed some place to put all the manure being generated in the Oval Office.
Just calling a spade a spade, and not a shovel.
April 18, 2009
Chris Coffey’s column today regarding the permanent political class is interesting, and begs for a solution.
Several states tried enacting Congressional Term Limits. SCOTUS shot them down. Congress, in like vein, passed the Line Item Veto. Again, shot down by SCOTUS. The obvious solution, therefore, is to enact amendments to the Constitution.
Well it’s a different Congress, and a vastly different landscape in DC than it was fourteen years ago when we had the GOP Contract with America. If you really want this to happen, you can’t depend on Washington to do it; it doesn’t fit in with the personal agendas of the people who are supposed to represent our interests ahead of their own.
You have to petition your state legislatures to pass the request for a Constitutional Convention for the separate amendments you want enacted. If 34 states can find the cojones to do this, then D.C cannot ignore them. If 38 states ratify the proposed amendments, then those amendments shall become part of the Constitution:
Article 5.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress…”
Since we know that Congress doesn’t listen to us, then perhaps it’s time for Constitutional conventions, not to rewrite the whole thing, but to see once and for all what all of us really want changed, and “git ‘er done”.
