Congratulations, President Obama is going to be President for another 20 years! Before you have a heart attack, this is not true, however, it could be if a new bill introduced into Congress gets passed and 3/4 of the states approve it. Fortunately, the latter is a very hard hurdle to accomplish.
In the following article we see that this insanity is not limited to Democrats, Republicans also have proposed this insanity. This would be a disaster if either party put someone in office for more than 8 years. In fact, we like David Stockman's proposal that all Presidents, Congressmen and Senators be limited to 6 years, total. Additionally, he would prevent any person who served in government to ever be a lobbyist. We think he has it right.
If you want to see more of Mr. Stockman's proposals, see the following post: http://political-conservatives.blogspot.com/2013/03/stockman-on-economy-and-our-future.html It will be time well spent.
Conservative Tom
New York congressman introduces bill to abolish presidential term limits
1:24 PM 01/06/2013
New York Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano reintroduced a bill in Congress on Friday to repeal the 22nd Amendment, which places term limits on the U.S. presidency.
The bill, which has been referred to committee, would allow Barack President Obama to become the first president since Franklin Roosevelt to seek a third term in office.
H.J. Res. 15 proposes “an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.”
The bill is a reintroduction of H.J. Res. 17, which Serrano introduced in Congress in January 2011. It was referred to the House judiciary committee, but did not make it to a floor vote.
Repealing the 22nd Amendment has been a longtime goal of Serrano’s, regardless of the sitting president’s political party. Serrano proposed similar resolutions in 1997 and 1999, during Bill Clinton’s administration, and in 2001, 2003, 2005, and 2007, during George W. Bush’s administration. He proposed the repeal again in 2009 after Obama took office.
None of his proposals has ever made it to a floor vote.
Democratic Maryland Rep. Steny Hoyer also repeatedly proposed repealing the 22nd Amendment during both the Clinton and Bush administrations.
Current Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sponsored a bill to repeal the amendment in 1995.
The 22nd Amendment was passed by Congress in 1947 and ratified by 41 states by 1951. The last president before Roosevelt to prepare for a campaign for a third term was Woodrow Wilson, who pulled out of the 1920 nominating race to avoid deadlocking the Democratic convention in San Francisco.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/06/new-york-congressman-introduces-bill-to-abolish-presidential-term-limits/#ixzz2PJ5ePBCe
This is an extreme example of the bills, budgets, and resolutions Congress passes every session that are totally useless to the country. Actually, it is not insane, though. They do this to reassure the people in their home districts/states that they are still at the ideological extremes of their party (Republican or Democrat), because the only real threat to their reelection is that somebody could challenge them from an even more extreme position (either right or left). Notice that this guy is a fan of Hugo Chavez and always gets reelected with 92% of the vote in his district.
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