Posted on 03/10/2015 6:49:58 AM PDT by Whenifhow
The listener's question -- even though the 22nd Amendment prevents President Obama from seeking a third term, what if he decided to remain in office after January 2017? [Rush]
Let's put this in a scenario, because some of you might be thinking, all right, Rush, now this is, we're going too far now. I mean, now all you guys thinking Obama's doing this and that and he's violating the Constitution, but he would never -- well, let's construct a scenario and see if it has even the slightest bit of believability. And let's establish some things that we know to be true that Obama also knows and chief among those is that the Republican Party has said that impeachment is off the table, and more than once they've said this. The Republican Party has made it clear that they will not use that constitutional measure as a means of reining Obama in and maybe even getting him out of office.
They have also made it very clear in just the most recent vote on the funding for Department of Homeland Security that they will not use the power of the purse to stop Obama. OK, so those two realities equal Obama fully aware the Republican Party will take no steps to stop him in his ongoing violations, and running up to the edges, of the Constitution.
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Indeed. And there were plenty of lefties fully convinced GWB would do the same thing.
These are as common as the "President __________ will most certainly declare martial law before the election" posts/thoughts we see every 2-4 years.
I’m sure the Chicago Mob is capable of trying this ploy, but I believe Obama is tired and bored with the whole thing so why not roll out Baraq 2.0...Lizzie Warren.
Throw in a horrible "terrorist attack" and the plan is complete.
Why do you think he is trying to take all the ammo away.
Yep, major SHTF near the next election time. Courtesy of Barky and Iran.
Because we're not a fighting the natural born citizen birth certificate fight here.
We're talking about the clear violation of the 22nd amendment. Keep it simple and on-point to that.
There are too many potential candidates of national stature and authority to just stand by idly and accept being harmed. All it would take is a Scott Walker or Rick Perry to challenge the legality of the candidacy for the process to begin.
And then if the argument becomes that he's not the candidate who faces Republicans until after the primaries, so they don't have standing until then, the response then becomes that they all are still held to the same FEC regulations as the rest of them. Therefore, all candidates can question the veracity of a process they must follow that also allows a clearly unconstitutional candidate to participate. How can any primary candidate trust rulings and regulations that come from an FEC that allows Obama to participate?
And then they bog down an Obama candidacy with lawsuits and donor threats.
-PJ
Those same things would have been said of both 2008 and 2012 too.
Opposing candidates DID file suit. They were told they had no standing unless everybody knew they would have been elected President if Obama was off the ballot. IOW, no other candidate would ever have standing because nobody can prove a future “what-if”.
There are no FEC regulations on eligibility. FEC is only about money.
People, you need to grasp exactly what we were told in 2008 and 2012 when y’all were ridiculing those of us who sounded the alarms. We were being told that we HAVE NO CONSTITUTION. The ONLY thing that determines eligibility is whether or not you can get 51% of the electoral votes.
My SOS’s office - in addition to saying Obama’s name would have to go on the ballot even if Obama himself was sitting in jail convicted of election fraud and perjury for registering to be on the ballot - said that there was no need for Constitutional eligibility to be checked by any official because the media would never let questions of ineligibility go unchallenged.
People who are that blind and stupid are dangerous to the Republic, especially if they hold positions of power. And they do.
Wake up, people. We’ve already been here and all y’all said the Constitution’s clear requirements are a non-issue and anybody who thinks the system should have means of accountability to the Constitution was ridiculed, mocked, and thrown off the plantation .We were too “embarrassing”. Right here on Free Republic, just like every place else.
What prophet has this people NOT killed? It’s the same question Jesus asked the people of His day.
Exactly.
We are reaching (maybe past) the point where the only way America as defined in the Constitution survives is through a rebellion against King George. The Constitution is gone; the process has killed it. If we want it back we have to earn it the same way it was earned in the first place. And if we’re unwilling to earn it, then we are unworthy of having it and need to stop griping about our chains because those chains were our choice.
Every July 4th we celebrate those who put their names on a piece of paper pledging their lives, possessions, and their sacred honor to the founding of this nation of rule by law rather than rule by men. And most of those men paid a heavy, heavy price in all those terms.
What are we willing to give? Willing to be called “crazy”? Willing to die at the hands of the regime, either overtly or covertly? Willing to lose our livelihood and all our possessions? Because that’s the price of these expensive things called freedom and justice. If we don’t value these things enough to buy them at that price, then we’ve frittered away the treasures bought and passed down to us and will never get them back.
It’s a time of decision. We can’t control what the political whores in DC will do. We can control what we do. And right now is the time we need to make up our minds whether all we hold dear is worth paying the price for.
-PJ
My question to Rush is if would he do anything to stop Obama.
And somebody somewhere always does say that about some president.
But it never happens (well, okay, FDR, but there wasn't a constitutional ban on third terms back then, and everybody was terrified of Hitler).
Politicians may be horrible people, but presidents have a great life once they leave office and they'd rather enjoy the perks than keep the power and worry about assassination every night.
I’ve been a lurker for many years and that post #48 is one of your best.
I’ve admired your work and steadfast pursuit of the truth.
Secession.
Linda Jordan already tried that in WA state. I think she was fined $30,000...
-PJ
The Constitution is gone. If everybody agreed that Constitutional qualifications didn’t deserve a day in court, then how the heck do you say that Constitutional qualifications (no third term) deserve a day in court? You don’t seem to understand that all the REASONS that any person could have for getting their day in court have been nixed. It is NOBODY’S business. That’s what the courts - and a bunch of people right here on FR and other “conservative” places - have told us all, over and over and over as they ridiculed us to the sky
If it’s “nobody’s business” to get a judicial answer for whether the 20th Amendment has been violated then it’s nobody’s business to get a judicial answer for whether the 22nd amendment was violated.
Please, people, let that sink in. NOTHING that happens is any of our business. That’s what all this “standing” crap has been telling us all this time. Even Congress doesn’t have “standing” to get Obama’s un-Constitutional actions overturned. It is NOBODY’S business if the coup walks off with our country. That is what all those court battles meant.
Even though the republicans might do nothing. It would never go so far as to a vote for President. The Oathkeepers would step up and stop the entire process. The constitutional slide would be stopped.
And not just him, but also Cruz, Christie, Graham, Perry, Huckabee, and the rest?
And Hillary and Warren, too?
These are not ordinary citizens who would go quietly into the night. These are Governors and Senators. They have both the standing and clout to force the issue, that you and I do not.
And the issue of 22nd amendment eligibility is clear cut. If any of these people has their sights on the Presidency, they won't let an illegal Obama power grab stand in their way. At that point, Obama will have to start gunning down his opponents and take over militarily.
That's when the country will be over.
-PJ
Make a guess as to why Hillary didn’t challenge Obama’s eligibility.
Why didn’t they issue this challenge in ‘07 and continuing thru ‘12?
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