Goodbye 22nd Amendment?

[snarkyman]

This can't possibly be good. How did this ever slip under the radar?


108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. J. RES. 11

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 7, 2003

"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

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'The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.'"


http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.J.RES.11:

Comments

Interesting..

[sapphorlando.livejournal.com]

..but a pointless gesture. A few hardcore Republicans are surely excited about the idea Boy Wonder staying on the end of the puppetstrings for longer than eight years, but I think that most Americans are scared shitless by the idea of a long-term President of any sort.

It's sort of ironic, because the 22nd Amendment was installed by Republicans in the first place, to keep FDR from running again.

Generally, though, I agree that it's pretty unsettling when something like this hits the bricks and it fails to usurp last week's "killer tornadoes" [sic] on CNN Headline News.

Which reminds me, anyone heard anything new (or anything at all) about the Patriot II bill?