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To: Hoosier-Daddy
-- I would imagine that, if the Pubbies take over, Boehner or Issa would have the power to subpoena Pelosi on how she was able to certify Obama's eligility. --

Fat chance. Boehner and Issa (and all others in Congress) have the power to ask this question at the time the electoral votes are counted. They knew or should have know that Obama was born a dual citizen. They had no objection to a dual citizen obtaining the presidency.

I find the GOP to be fully invested in Obama's legitimacy, to the same extent the DEM party is. The only way this issue gets traction is via massive public awareness of the issues relating to dual citizenship and how those can impact ones allegiance as seen by the other country's government, and by the dual citizen. If the public has no issue with dual citizenship, the politicians and power brokers PREFER lack of nation and national patriotism.

74 posted on 09/09/2010 6:33:40 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

I mostly agree but there’s one issue that deserves further scrutiny. If you look at the rules regarding how Congress is supposed to contest the certification of the electoral results, the issues all deal with whether the votes were properly certified by the states before being delivered to Congress. Congress’ job is just to count the votes and certify what the end vote tabulation was - unless there is a split vote where nobody gets a majority, in which case Congress has to vote on just the top 2 from the electoral vote.

So I don’t know whether Congress actually CAN contest the eligibility of the candidate.

There were some who officially contested Florida’s certification of the electoral votes in the 2000 election, but Gore presided over the count and threw out those objections - probably because the Bush v Gore case had already decided the issue.

Maybe some of the legal eagles here can tell us, based upon the rules for contesting the electoral vote counting, whether the issue of eligibility can be contested by Congressmen.


81 posted on 09/09/2010 6:56:37 AM PDT by butterdezillion (.)
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