I guess the man highest on the totem pole always wins

Given the way the eco is going and the so called stress test reports I truly believe that BO has no hope of even getting a second term let alone a 3rd or 4th. Lets not even start with his handling of the 3am moments, here and here, of corse the list goes on and gets pointed out here very day.

They didn’t like term limits because they beleived that lame-ducks would lose the ambition to make good policy. The 22nd Amendment, like a lot of Congressional action, was reactionary (FDR), but short-sighted. Presidents followed the 2 term precedent for almost 200 years before it. It wasn’t necessary.

Didn’t Reagen also want to get it repealed?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5122031/South-Park-creators-given-signed-photo-of-Saddam-Hussein.html

six other times in the past.

Still, it would certainly make an explosive flashpoint for civil war.

http://www.foxnews.com/

which we’ve already lost in all but name, can anybody give me one good reason to keep a federal government?

I’m serious. Think about it very hard after the knee jerk reaction. Believe me, I gave myself one just at the thought. I’m not saying that we should but in its present form:

*It’s not going to keep us safe.
*It’s not doing anything to keep us strong economically.
*It’s not doing much of anything but sucking the life out of the country’s people.

Once you’ve thought about it, really thought about it, then we’ll know the right path to turn this country around. Otherwise all we’re doing is spinning wheels in the dustbin of history and going through the motions of “doing something.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090409/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/marines_fallujah_9

Which I suppose would make me principled, for, ya know, supporting an amendment even when it may not be in my best interests to do so.

The Democrats supporting it now when they wouldn’t have last term… Well that’s something different.

Kerry calls for pirate hearings as drama continues

I’m fine with leaving them or repealing them. The Presidency has so much individual power, and it takes such a mass movement to sway a Presidential election, that I can buy the argument that extra controls are needed.

What I oppose are legislative term limits. If House members are growing to unaccountable we need to reduce the sizes of their constituencies, adding members as needed.

If Senators are growing unaccountable, repeal the 17th.

Ummm…Serrano has been introducing this every few years since 1997, including multiple occasions during the Bush Presidency. It honestly does seem to be a point of principle with him, not some effort to make a permenant President Obama.

If they did know for what they voted, how to explain the Rasmussen poll out today which found only about 20% of Americans think that socialism is better than capitalism.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/just_53_say_capitalism_better_than_socialism

Answer: The Americans who voted for this president were largely un- or misinformed. But we knew that already.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

I understand the importance of the precedent for two terms in office for the President. But I also know that the American president is easy to sandbag in the second term. Congress and the leaders of other countries would know they might be dealing with the President for longer. There would be no waiting him out. More things would get done. Maybe we don’t like that idea now because we are out of power, but there will be another Reagan like character in the conservative movement, and we will want him/her to be in office for twelve to sixteen years as well.

Dodd Caught in Union Crossfire Over Calls to Halt F-22 Production
The Connecticut Democrat, along with other members of his state’s congressional delegation, is meeting Thursday with the Hartford chapter of the machinists’ union that would take a big hit under Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ call to halt production of the F-22 jet

I didn’t think I could buy poster board before the tea party but looking around my apartment I realized we have so many posters I can use the backs of!

If you see a lady holding the periodic table you will know who it is.

I’m going to the local mall to the T-Shirt shop, where they air-brush T-Shirts to see if I can have a couple of T-Shirts made.

I want a Colonial Flag on the front, with “Free America”, inside the circle of 13 stars.
On the back, a picture of a Colonial ship with a large t-Bag hanging either over the side like an anchor or from a yard arm, and the date, city, And state,and then Tea Party.
So mine would say:
April 15
Lansing Michigan
Tea Party

I don’t know if I can get that done, but will find out tommarow.
One, if I could draw more than an electrical schematic and stick figures, I would attempt to make it my self and post it for you.
I’ll se what I can do.
I knew I woke up for something.