Wait just a damn minute...

Alright, I'll be the first to admit that sometimes I am not the most perceptive gent. For instance, I recently spent almost 20 minutes looking for a pair of pliers that I had not but two minutes before put back into their leather holster, which hangs on my hip. That was quite embarrassing, and resulted in me having to sit down and have a recovery gin n' tonic, if simply to kill of those brain cells that decided not to check my hip for the pair of pliers that generally resides there. That being said, I do try to keep up on political news, especially when it refers to "Fearless Leader" and his pack of iniquitous cronies, and I believe I generally do a good job of it, although it's all my poor brain can do to filter through the offal of everyday MSM "journalism" to catch the pearls of true news. However, I didn't hear a peep about this, and actually, came upon it quite by accident, from one of those "kooky conspiracy websites" that people link to in order to provide evidence that Bush really is an alien, or 9/11 was a planned CIA attack, or that small trout live in Dick Cheney and operate him much like a giant muppet Gorg. ("But dear, a gazeebo's a big, smelly animal!") I digress, I was wandering about the website, chuckling about this and that when I finally came upon a piece that caught my eye. It involved the deranged F. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, and a joint resolution, filed in the House, which attempts to repeal the 22nd amendment. By all means, go back and read that sentence again, because if you've gotten this far without your mouth opening wide enough to drive a city busy through, you didn't quite get it. For those that need some reminding (some of my readership has been out of school for many years), the 22nd Amendment to The Constitution is as follows:

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of President more than once.

There is, of course, a bit more to it, but it all involves when the Amendment would come into play, and since we don't live in 1950, it won't effect us. Now then, wonderful crackpot Sensenbrenner wants to repeal this Amendment so that his wonderful Dubya can run again. I'm serious. Stop laughing. Here's the text of the joint resolution, one of the first legal documents short enough that I can post it on this site in good conscience:

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution. (Introduced in House)

HJ 24 IH

109th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. J. RES. 24

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

February 17, 2005

Mr. HOYER (for himself, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. SENSENBRENNER, Mr. SABO, and Mr. PALLONE) introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 22nd amendment to the Constitution.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

`Article --

`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.'.
[Library of Congress Link]

Do you see now? I'm not joking around, Sensenbrenner and his doofy commrades mean business here. After all, Sensebrenner got his ridiculous REAL ID bill past by embedding it in a "must-pass" piece of funding legislation. Whats to say that he's not sitting on this until the next bit of Iraq War funding comes along, and then slams it on as a rider? However, this isn't really the big issue here. Several minutes after I read this, I asked myself "Why the hell haven't I heard about this yet?" I say several minutes after due to the fact that I spent the first three minutes flicking my finger across my lips and making the "Bdeebdeebdebeebdbee" sound that the dogs in WB cartoons are fond of. Where's the media on this one? Did they say something back in February that I completely and inexplicabley missed? Was there a national debate about why this would be a horrendously bad idea? Did anyone knee-cap Sensenbrenner? I did a bit of searching around the internet, using search terms like "22nd amendment repeal", "H. J. RES. 24" and "completely bat-shit insane", but it appears, aside from one conspiracy website, that no one is talking about this little bit of legislation. Am I missing something? Do legislators try this all the time, and I only stumbled on the most recent version of it, or am I correct in my assumption that the media is missing (or ignoring) this?

I don't think I need to tell anybody why this is a very bad idea, but I will do so, as this is "my show", as they say. It's bad enough that in the past 5 years, the powers of the Presidency have swelled past that of a check and balance in a larger government, and on to a near god-king. What we especially need right now would the ability for the most powerful office in the land becoming a lifetime position (Supreme Court). It intrigues me to think that Bill Clinton might be able to win against Bush (even with all the election stealing), but that's still too much of a risk to allow the ignoramous even one more chance at the office. No thank you.

Am I the only one thats paying any attention to this?