The Coming Constitutional Crisis
Election day is less than 24 hours away. The dog and pony show that started almost two years ago is about to come to an end and I know a number of people who can hardly wait for it to be over. Hold on to your hats because the roller coaster may be coming in to the station, but it's not slowing down. Denver talk show host Peter Boyles has done a number of shows on topic that may become important before the end of the week.
Unless the seven lawsuits that have been filed are settled within the next 40 hours, we will wake up on November 5th to questions concerning the citizenship status of the election's winner. It's not a foregone conclusion, but there is every reason to think that Barack Obama will win the election for President of the United States. There is a brewing controversy concerning the possibility that he may be a citizen of Indonesia, Kenya, The United States, any, all, or none. The question to be answered before inauguration day is where Obama stands in the spectrum between fully qualified to hold office and illegal alien. Although one of the suits has been dismissed, the matter is far from being settled.
There is no reason that the man could not run for office. As a sitting member of the Senate, there's no presumption that he is not qualified to the Presidency. There's nothing to stop him from winning the election. It's a race; the person with the most electoral votes wins. He can even take the oath of office. However, if he does not fit the Constitutionally mandated qualifications, he cannot serve. One of four things would have to happen. Either the Congress can ignore the Constitution like they always do, the Congress will be obligated to impeach him, they can change the Constitution, or they can make a law (after the fact) that he's qualified no matter what the Constitution says.
A reader will have no trouble finding, elsewhere in this blog, an incidence where I say the the major political parties in the United States are not to be trusted. They've surprised me in the past. But I would not be surprised to find that they've conspired to manufacture a problem in need of a solution... again. The truth of the matter is not unknown to the people at the top. They've allowed it to get this far with neither side demanding or producing a definitive answer. This inquiring mind wants to know why.
Consider the following scenario:
Obama will become President Elect. This will raise the possibility that the Congress will be obligated to impeach him within days of his taking the oath of office. This possibility will make a Constitutional Amendment necessary because Obama's citizenship status cannot be revealed without also revealing that it's been known by both parties for some time. With this ex-post-facto maneuver, it won't matter where he was born and the door will be open for the Austrian to step up for the next general election.
My friends (where have I heard that before?), the very idea that two thirds of both Houses of the Congress would propose a Constitutional Amendment AND that three fourths of the State legislatures would ratify it in sixty days is an exercise in insane speculation. I fully expect that this particular reality would have me written off as a nut case. However, I know that the United States Congress and every State legislature is controlled by the Democrats and the Republicans. I also know that they will do whatever they want, without regard for what the people want. January 20,2009 will arrive and there will be no doubt as to what has transpired between now and then. I hope I'm wrong this time. You get to hope I'm wrong the next time.
Unless the seven lawsuits that have been filed are settled within the next 40 hours, we will wake up on November 5th to questions concerning the citizenship status of the election's winner. It's not a foregone conclusion, but there is every reason to think that Barack Obama will win the election for President of the United States. There is a brewing controversy concerning the possibility that he may be a citizen of Indonesia, Kenya, The United States, any, all, or none. The question to be answered before inauguration day is where Obama stands in the spectrum between fully qualified to hold office and illegal alien. Although one of the suits has been dismissed, the matter is far from being settled.
There is no reason that the man could not run for office. As a sitting member of the Senate, there's no presumption that he is not qualified to the Presidency. There's nothing to stop him from winning the election. It's a race; the person with the most electoral votes wins. He can even take the oath of office. However, if he does not fit the Constitutionally mandated qualifications, he cannot serve. One of four things would have to happen. Either the Congress can ignore the Constitution like they always do, the Congress will be obligated to impeach him, they can change the Constitution, or they can make a law (after the fact) that he's qualified no matter what the Constitution says.
A reader will have no trouble finding, elsewhere in this blog, an incidence where I say the the major political parties in the United States are not to be trusted. They've surprised me in the past. But I would not be surprised to find that they've conspired to manufacture a problem in need of a solution... again. The truth of the matter is not unknown to the people at the top. They've allowed it to get this far with neither side demanding or producing a definitive answer. This inquiring mind wants to know why.
Consider the following scenario:
Obama will become President Elect. This will raise the possibility that the Congress will be obligated to impeach him within days of his taking the oath of office. This possibility will make a Constitutional Amendment necessary because Obama's citizenship status cannot be revealed without also revealing that it's been known by both parties for some time. With this ex-post-facto maneuver, it won't matter where he was born and the door will be open for the Austrian to step up for the next general election.
My friends (where have I heard that before?), the very idea that two thirds of both Houses of the Congress would propose a Constitutional Amendment AND that three fourths of the State legislatures would ratify it in sixty days is an exercise in insane speculation. I fully expect that this particular reality would have me written off as a nut case. However, I know that the United States Congress and every State legislature is controlled by the Democrats and the Republicans. I also know that they will do whatever they want, without regard for what the people want. January 20,2009 will arrive and there will be no doubt as to what has transpired between now and then. I hope I'm wrong this time. You get to hope I'm wrong the next time.
posted by Ebony Ghost at 6:35 AM
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