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To: butterdezillion
-- The more I think about it, Congress probably could have contested the electoral vote. Those electors could have voted for Mickey Mouse, and would Congress have to certify Mickey Mouse as the electoral winner? --

If that's where the votes fall, yes, that's where the votes fall. Congress can still object on the basis of failure to meet the qualifications, and find that there has been a failure on the part of the electors to elect a person qualified for the office. At that point, they follow the procedure set forth in the 12th amendment - and if the House can't elect a qualified president, well, as you say, a major housecleaning is in order.

By the way, I agree that Pelosi and the DNC are legally on the hook for testifying that Obama, a known dual citizen at birth, meets the constitutional qualifications. But I think the issue of qualification has no traction with either of the established political parties.

I find the entire federal government operation to be basically one of misdirection, dishonesty, and subterfuge. The government is irredeemably corrupt. Elections are held in order to mislead the public into believing it (the public) is under some form of self-government. It's an illusion.

I give the government respect, for the same reason I give the mafia respect. They have force of violence, and they are eager to use it to obtain submission. But neither outfit has any legitimate claim to power by the consent of the governed. The feds have violated the constitution every which way, and then they, themselves, through their own federal courts, conclude that they haven't. Too few of the people have a clue and care. The system can't collapse fast enough to suit me.

118 posted on 09/09/2010 9:27:21 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

I hear where you’re coming from. Something definitely has to give. No nation can survive the level of corruption that we’ve got. The question is how we’re going to fall and whether and how we get back up.

I think the communists and Islamists have united, and unless factions within those groups splinter off and fight the rest (such as China looking out for its own economic interests over and above the Islamists or Soros whom they hate, for instance), America and the known free world may have a really rough ride ahead.

But I definitely have a limited view so all I can do is wait and see what happens, and prepare myself to be ready for whatever decisions I might have to make.


124 posted on 09/09/2010 9:57:02 AM PDT by butterdezillion (.)
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