“IMHO it is fundamental to the legitimacy of the Constitution that it be, to parody Hobbes, “unnasty, unbrutish, and short. It has to be a compact statement of enduring principle and due process. And I just don’t see adding neither-fish-nor-fowl officers to the Constitution, if that’s what you’re doing.”
How about a single ‘anti-power’ representative of the states? It might be a new idea, but it's not really that complex. ‘Anti-power’ — brutish? Not as violent as the Second Amendment which is also the principle of ‘anti-power’.
So please clarify. What is nasty? What is brutish? And where are fewer words that achieve the same important goals?
There was a time when most congress members went to a particular kind of church from the day they were born to the day they died. Every week they cringed at a ‘fire and brimstone’ sermon.
But that world has suffered from vile rot, noxious fumes that blind people. Not only do colleges indoctrinate the clergy [who now generally have weakened faith at best], the colleges also undermine the politicians’ faith.
There is no longer any honor in the impeachment process, and it was too high a bar from the beginning. Some republicans now think that Nixon should not have resigned.
And few people recall that Nixon appointed a Chief Justice [Rehnquist if I remember correctly?] ... Nixon chose the guy because he wanted a Chief Justice who was openly opposed to presidential impeachment. Such a radical should never have been nominated or confirmed. [But Rehnquist was probably better than average as a modern justice.]
That's one reason for ‘competitive nomination’ of federal judges as well as ‘supremes’ [in the plan above].
Heck, we had a president who gave a tax-funded job to his mistress. That was used an example of a tyrannical act in the Federalist Papers that impeachment power would specifically prevent, and the democrats hugged that tyrant on the White House lawn.
And Rehnquist ‘presided’ over the impeachment ‘trial’ like a puppet while Arlen Spector correctly mocked the spectacle with a ‘not proved’ protest vote. It was all ‘proper’ because that's how our Constitution was implemented during the previous impeachment ‘trial’ too back in the 1800s. So now the procedure is ‘locked in’.
From the moment Clinton was impeached, Presidents have been and will continue to be 8-year kings with NO accountability.
Now for another serious problem — this amnesty surge. It's all up to our king, don't you see? Only the King of the US has any executive authority regarding borders, immigration, and whatever else his most Imperial Greatness decrees.
Oh, but we can turn to the smirking eunuchs running Capitol Hill, who hijacked our counterrevolution after all of our hard work [and I'm including this forum's history with that ‘hard work’], and secretly they also want a new voter block.
A new voter block from rival nations that hate us. You would not believe the way they riot against US diplomatic efforts. They threw excrement at a US convoy one time. Another time some South American presidential security roughed up one of Bush's security agents and GW Bush had to shove through the mob and rescue his own security!
Most of these ‘voter imports’ believe the USA’s greatness was founded on being evil. And those are the guys poised to overwhelm informed voters.
After a counterrevolutionary election we now must appeal to McConnell and Bonehead?
I say it again ....
!!! .... I ...... REFUSE .... !!!
Those two eunuchs might have handed in their manhood, but not me, not you, and not the state legislators either.