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Interesting: Pelosi is no longer second in line to default as POTUS. Boehner will be. (Vanity)
11/07/11 | me

Posted on 11/07/2010 3:55:56 AM PST by Evil Slayer

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To: Evil Slayer

Yeah, you seem to be the only other poster to notice that. What a worthless thread.


61 posted on 11/07/2010 5:32:27 AM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: Evil Slayer

Oops, I see you weren’t the poster to whom I referred. It was post 4 that first noted your error. I see you are the author of this worthless thread.


62 posted on 11/07/2010 5:34:41 AM PST by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: stockpirate

I agree with you.


63 posted on 11/07/2010 5:44:28 AM PST by earlJam
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To: skimbell
****"...after Sen. John Boehner is sworn in as Speaker of the House..." I stopped reading right here.****

Me too. Beohner is all wrong for the job. Establishment Republicans aren't getting it either. The Establishment Republicans are almost as suspect as the failed democrats.

64 posted on 11/07/2010 6:17:49 AM PST by atc23
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To: skimbell

Who would be your choice for speaker?


65 posted on 11/07/2010 6:22:21 AM PST by Ditter
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To: y6162

“The brain damaged Biden would have a panic attack and resign.”

Even though Biden is one of the best living, breathing examples of the Peter Principle at work, that’s certainly not the way HE views the world. He hasn’t held a job yet that he didn’t think he was the best-qualified person on the planet to fill. Moreover, to turn Rushbo’s comment about Obama on its head: Joe Biden thinks he’s the smartest person in any room he enters. His arrogance is perhaps rivaled only by Barack Obama’s.


66 posted on 11/07/2010 6:25:55 AM PST by DrC
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To: Evil Slayer
OVERREACH!

Didn't the dem wipeout teach you anything? The next general election and from this point forward, all candidates must be certified with a LFBC before proceeding to the ballot. The new congress must address this point before 2012. If that happens, the congress will, for all intents and purposes, be affirming that Obama was not qualified. Let the issue then take on a life of its own with the electorate.

67 posted on 11/07/2010 6:27:19 AM PST by atc23
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To: Ditter

My comment was in regard to the assertion that Boehner is a senator.


68 posted on 11/07/2010 6:27:29 AM PST by skimbell
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To: skimbell

So I am guessing you are not happy with him being a senator. I don’t know much about him.


69 posted on 11/07/2010 6:32:14 AM PST by Ditter
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To: library user

“Hillary has already said, just the other day, she’s not running in 2012.”

You can take that to the bank!


70 posted on 11/07/2010 6:40:51 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Evil Slayer

Good luck with that. Any of it.


71 posted on 11/07/2010 6:45:33 AM PST by LiberConservative
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To: screaminsunshine
While 2/3s of the States can call for a constitutional convention, whatever amendments are approved have to be ratified by 3/4s of the legislatures of the States. Since the procedure has never been tried, it would certainly take a few years to carry out.

In January 2009, the Congress without objection accepted the results of the Electoral College. Outside of the impeachment process, Congress has no power to vote a bill of attainder (conviction by legislative act).

It's going to be a long, two years to 2013.

72 posted on 11/07/2010 6:48:57 AM PST by Procyon (Tagline under construction)
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To: Quick Shot

“Also note she also loses her private US funded air force. With healthy expense account.”

Does she really or will she just keep it anyway?


73 posted on 11/07/2010 7:14:26 AM PST by gopheraj
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To: Evil Slayer

74 posted on 11/07/2010 7:15:30 AM PST by newzjunkey
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To: Evil Slayer

BINGO.....
Biden would also be removed because he was the RUNNING MATE of NObama——He was not the winner of a separate set of primaries. They are tied together like a pair of shoes.


75 posted on 11/07/2010 7:16:38 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: mazda77

ROFLMTO...Imagine that Pres Biden, that is a scary thought, but less scary than the one we have now....lol I vote for dual impeachment, since Biden claims to have been an advisor to the President. This is just too funny.


76 posted on 11/07/2010 7:35:47 AM PST by Kackikat (There is no such thing as a free lunch, because someone paid, somewhere.)
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To: LucyT; STARWISE; ASA Vet

ping...


77 posted on 11/07/2010 7:43:47 AM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: Non-Sequitur

Why is everybody so panicked by the thought of a con-con?

I keep trying to explain that there is no danger in a con-con, but nobody will listen. I keep saying that the Constitution gives us TWO avenues to propose Amendments — by a vote of Congress or (if they won’t do it) by a Convention of state legislatures. Got that? Either CONGRESS or the STATES THEMSELVES may propose Amendments. (Think “term limits” and ask yourself if Congress would support it?) But still the panic. OK then.

Let’s try this approach — why were the Federalist Papers written?

Answer: To urge citizens to support adoption of the “new” Constitution that was written by the original Convention.

But wait ... those wild-eyed radicals like Jefferson and Madison might propose crazy things! We don’t want changes to our Articles of Confederation, do we? Maybe a little tweak or two, but nothing drastic! Of course, they did propose changes, big ones, but the proposed new “Constitution” had to be approved or nothing would happen. Hence the Federalist Papers, to explain everything.

Bottom line — the Constitution had to be accepted by the states. Same for any “revised” Constitution or Amendment that a modern con-con would propose. The states would decide if they liked it or they didn’t.

A Constitutional Convention CANNOT simply write a revised constitution then throw out the old one and the new one takes effect. Can’t happen. Won’t happen. They may propose any damned thing they like, but WE THE PEOPLE decide if we accept their proposed changes or not.

Personally, I would like to see a Constitution Convention seated and have them propose LOTS of minor changes. Add term limits. Change the word “regulate” to “promote” in the Commerce Clause. Make changes to Article III and give us a judiciary that can’t legislate from the bench. Rescind the 16th Amendment (income tax) and the 17th Amendment (direct election of Senators) and tweak the 14th Amendment to do away with “anchor” babies.

Then we can debate and decide each and every one of those changes and vote to approve the ones we want. And reject the ones we don’t. No danger.


78 posted on 11/07/2010 8:13:29 AM PST by DNME (With the sound of distant drums ... something wicked this way comes.)
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To: roaddog727
IT would mean that all the planets were in alignment, Santaclause was real, and the Easter bunny lived under my fromt porch...where he laid chicken eggs.
79 posted on 11/07/2010 8:17:03 AM PST by chainsaw ( 'You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal)
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To: Non-Sequitur
The only way he could be removed would be through impeachment in the House and conviction by two-thirds of the sentence.

Sometimes, simple mistakes like that can grow legs. Our esteemed upper chamber does sometimes seem like an incomplete, run-on "sentence".

80 posted on 11/07/2010 8:46:39 AM PST by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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