Unappealing Repeal

After reading of the resolution to repeal the 22nd Amendment, that godsend which limits the President and Vice President to two terms, I was thunderstruck. What kind of chuckleheads would consider proposing this? Yunno, outside of Tojo's inner circle? So I thought it was time to do some snooping. I put on my Encyclopedia Brown hat and consigned myself to the dank backrooms and shadowy alleys of net sleuthing. Yeah, I went to Google.
Turns out, it's been a pretty popular idea, although thus far with nonidiot presidents:

109th Congress - HJ Res 24 (2005)
108th Congress - HJ Res 25 (2003)
107th Congress - HJ Res 39 (2001)
106th Congress - HJ Res 24 (1999)
105th Congress - HJ Res 39 (1997)
104th Congress - HJ Res 71 (1995)
103rd Congress - HJ Res 107 (1993)
102nd Congress - HJ Res 61 (1991)
101st Congress - HJ Res 84 (1989)
100th Congress - HJ Res 156 (1987)
99th Congress - HJ Res 687 (1986)

So it's not looking too extraordinary, right? Except we're talking about Bush & Cheney, possibly the worst criminal mental midgets to ever to suck a taxpayer paycheck off the public dole. Whereupon this idea (still in committee, I might add) becomes downright scary in a wholly sinister way. It's like substituting a placebo for Adolph's last bennie or asking Fritz Haarman to dinner. Something Mensa-centric like that. Not only baffling, but akin to political suicide. Face it, they didn't win the first two times, and Congress better count on having a theses hammered on their door if they think we're going to hand a third one over. Just won't happen - even with a lot of Tiannamen Square people mowers. Ask the students at Stanford, who didn't even want Tates on their campus, and faced down a 2 ton firetruck to prevent it. Students: 1 Firetruck: 0.
Or all over California, where protestors lined the streets to 'serenade' his motorcade - with catcalls. They greeted him Mussolini-style in Portland, him being Mussolini and they being wannabe Colonello Valerios. Even in hardcore redstate Utah, the mayor chose to attend the anti-Bush rally while the Tater was visiting.

Hell even nerds are protesting Bush. When geeks venture out of their basements into actual sunlight and voluntarily disconnect the CPU drip, you're in world of trouble. Right about now the Ku Klux Klan is getting a warmer reception in heartland America than Senor Slinky.
So rate this idea up there with New Coke and The Segway.

Fair. Balanced. The Good News.
In my fruitless search for good legislation to balance out the bad news that somewhere someone with opposable thumbs believed this an idea on a par with issuing Helen Keller a drivers license, nowhere did I discover a bill in Congress to Repeal Tates. A legislation which would receive widespread support, an outpouring of gift cards from BestBuy© and an offer to father my child . This could be attested to by Senator Feingold, the cojones con pelo who is pushing presidential censure, who has seen his campaign contributions double in the 4 weeks since introducting that legislation...and who could probably father my child if he's not busy anytime in roughly the next 99 years.

Congress - Cowering Or Never Getting Real Executive Stuff Signed

Meanwhile the bodycount mounts: Australia suffered its first loss, Canada lost four soldiers, a British engineer was beheaded, and five more were added to the American tally of soldiers coming home in hushed up, unphotographed flag draped coffins. Because if we saw a photograph, we'd say, 'Whoa, it must be real.' Yeah, otherwise we'd believe they were erecting those stone markers as some form of macabre art. Asshats.

Army suicides rose to the highest rate since 1999, the majority taking place in the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan.
And amidst all this death and destruction, the solution is to put the dissenters on trial. Like attempting to prosecute the peace-loving Granny Brigade into jail for 15 days.
We must stop terrorism at it's roots, people. Clearly, killing 2,385 soldiers is nothing compared to feisty senior citizens protesting to stop it. They pose a clear and criminal threat to being able to quietly kill 2.5 good soldiers daily.
This, then, is a national security issue of utmost importance. A Homerland Security issue, where the grants for good Nazis will get you clowns and gym equipment.

Eh, I don't even have reach here. It's like going to a tanning salon at the equator. Un-necessary.

It's the same deal with sending 'detainees' on CIA rendition flights so they can be tortured. Not a problem. Now daring to bring that illegal and immoral practice to light? You get fired and face pending prosecution. So if you think calling them Nazis is extreme, then here's a heads up - Harpers is already calling them the German Wehrmacht. Pota-toe, Pota-toh. You could dress it up and take two FDA-Certified PharmaProduced Vioxx....but that's just a quicker way to die believing in the overwhelming competency of private interests in your government. It won't change the facts and it certainly shouldn't make you feel any better.

It might help you forget Bush droning on about 'Free Speech' at Chairman Hu's visit - minutes before his SS (secret service for the Vioxx impaired) put their hand over the mouth of a doctor excersizing that very right. They hauled her off and charged her. Free speech, what a freakin concept in Bushworld. Then Tatertot goes and apologizes to Hu. Apologizes! Hey, dinkwad, apologize for this.(Warning: Graphic Photos) That's what happens in China when you're a dissenter.
Are you sure Vioxx is strong enough for you?

I can't leave you without hope, because there is hope. While there may be a few glimmers at the top like Feingold & Murtha, Kerry & Gore, there are even larger lights shining among the ordinary protestors and the principled whistleblowers, the gutsy Generals and the small organizations taking on the NSA and illegal spying, the Blackwater families taking on the private merchant armies, the soldiers coming back as Iraq veterans and running for office, the college students waking up and walking out, and the internet - where information is exchanged, shared, passed and disseminated so action can be undertaken.

And there are the cities and towns and states, the towns in Vermont and across this country that have already passed Impeachment proceedings. And the state of Illinois, who are about to rock the nation:

The Illinois General Assembly is about to rock the nation. Members of state legislatures are normally not considered as having the ability to decide issues with a massive impact to the nation as a whole. Representative Karen A. Yarbrough of Illinois' 7th District is about to shatter that perception forever. Representative Yarbrough stumbled on a little known and never utlitized rule of the US House of Representatives, Section 603 of Jefferson's Manual of the Rules of the United States House of Representatives, which allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature. From there, Illinois House Joint Resolution 125 (hereafter to be referred to as HJR0125) was born.

The Illionis State Legislature is about to drop a Bombshell

There is a moral to this story. And it's very simple:
Don't Take on Heartland America.
That's where the real sleeping giant lives.
And once you wake up the Sleeping Giant ... there's no going back.

See you at Nuremberg II.

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