skews13
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Truth is, our Constitution has a time bomb hidden in it. That time bomb has been going off, in slow motion, ever since our Founders ratified it. The time bomb appears in a whole sentence, but the key part is just nine words long: “Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings . . . “ Article I, Section 5, Clause 2.
How can we fix this?
The key here is the rules of each House. Rules of procedure seem so innocuous, don’t they, until you understand what men like Mitch McConnell and Denny Hastert can get away with by manipulating them? Was Hastert, who perpetrated these vetoes on the House, a great legal mind, a constitutional scholar? Hardly. He was a former high-school basketball coach who paid to hush up a charge of pedophilia!
So I think we need an amendment to our Constitution, outlawing minority and individual vetoes and re-establishing majority rule in both Houses. Here’s my proposal for such an amendment, to be inserted immediately after the single sentence of Article I, Section 5, Clause 2:
The current rules of both houses have to go. They have created a tyranny of the minority for career politicians, both of which the Founders did not envision, nor want.
If your policy is that sound, it will be accepted by the majority of Americans. It should be allowed to be brought to the floor for a vote of either house, and sink or swim on it's merits.
How can we fix this?
The key here is the rules of each House. Rules of procedure seem so innocuous, don’t they, until you understand what men like Mitch McConnell and Denny Hastert can get away with by manipulating them? Was Hastert, who perpetrated these vetoes on the House, a great legal mind, a constitutional scholar? Hardly. He was a former high-school basketball coach who paid to hush up a charge of pedophilia!
So I think we need an amendment to our Constitution, outlawing minority and individual vetoes and re-establishing majority rule in both Houses. Here’s my proposal for such an amendment, to be inserted immediately after the single sentence of Article I, Section 5, Clause 2:
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The current rules of both houses have to go. They have created a tyranny of the minority for career politicians, both of which the Founders did not envision, nor want.
If your policy is that sound, it will be accepted by the majority of Americans. It should be allowed to be brought to the floor for a vote of either house, and sink or swim on it's merits.
