The U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary is considering a bill that would repeal the Constitution's 22nd Amendment prohibiting a president from being elected to more than two terms in office.

 

Rep. Jose Serrano, D-N.Y., earlier this month introduced the bill, H. J. Res. 5, which, according to the bill's language, proposes "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."

 

In the past, some presidents have been critical of the 22nd Amendment, including Eisenhower, Clinton and Reagan.

 

In 1807 Thomas Jefferson, however, warned that presidents not bound by term limits could use their popularity and power to become kings. Read article.

Sher Zieve, Canada Free Press.com

 

Will George W. Bush end up being the last true US President? Increasingly, it seems that he just may. As lawsuits against President-elect Barack Hussein Obama—questioning his US citizenship—continue to grow, he ever more adamantly continues his refusal to produce his real, viable and original birth certificate. 

 

Note: Obama’s supposed Hawaiian birth certificate is issued to those born outside of the USA who move to Hawaii. In fact, Hawaii issues “Certifications of Live Birth” to those who are foreign born. This is the same document that Obama and his team claim is his birth certificate.

 

As I warned you on multiple times prior to the 2008 General Election, “once Obama is elected, we won’t be able to get rid of him.” Tragically, this warning is now being realized. Not only has Obama established his election-fraud organization—ACORN—nationwide, his adherents have now begun the process to repeal the US Constitution’s 22nd Amendment. This amendment sets term limits for US presidents. And Obama still plans to set up his national police force that he wants to be as large and well-funded as the US military. Read article.

 

Mark Alexander, Patriot Post.us

 

Perhaps the most famous line from any Democrat presidential inaugural was uttered by John F. Kennedy in 1961. He closed his remarks with these words: "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

 

Barack Obama and his party have turned that clarion call on end, suggesting that their constituents should "ask what your country can do for you."

 

On Tuesday, Barack Obama will take an oath "to support and defend the Constitution", but he has no history of honoring our Constitution, even pledging that his Supreme Court nominees should comport with Leftist ideology and "break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted."

 

Some have suggested that since the election is over and Obama is the victor, we should accord him the honor due his office. But if he does not honor his constitutional oath, why would anyone extend him the honor of its highest constitutional office? Read article.

 

Yidwithlid.blogspot.com

 

The AP has reported that the Terrorist Supporting Group the Islamic Society of North America ISNA will be represented at the Obama inauguration:

 

A prayer will be offered at the National Cathedral by Ingrid Mattson, the first woman president of the Islamic Society of North America, according to an official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information. The Islamic Society, based in Indiana, is the nation's largest Muslim group.

 

You may remember that the ISNA, and its financial wing the NAIT, were named as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas funding trial. Read article.

 

Michael Gerson, Townhall.com

 

It is the primary purpose of presidential leadership to be a force that draws us together -- to declare, as Jefferson did, that we are "brethren of the same principle," to state and plead, as Lincoln did, that "We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies."

 

The origin of this unity for Americans is not an accident of blood or birth, but certain shared moral affirmations about the rights and dignity of all men and women -- assertions contained in the Declaration of Independence, and uncontained in their global influence. The existence of those rights imposes duties on government -- and creates obligations of citizens to each other.

 

In an Inaugural, it is appropriate to mention current events, but the State of the Union allows specificity soon enough. An inaugural presents different tests for a new president: Can he stop talking like a candidate, and speak for the country and its purposes? Can he place his barely started chapter in the context of the American story? Read article.

 

Rich Noyes, Newsbusters.org

 

Four years ago, the Associated Press and others in the press suggested it was in poor taste for Republicans to spend $40 million on President Bush’s inauguration. AP writer Will Lester calculated the impact that kind of money would have on armoring Humvees in Iraq, helping victims of the tsunami, or paying down the deficit. Lester thought the party should be cancelled: “The questions have come from Bush supporters and opponents: Do we need to spend this money on what seems so extravagant?”

 

Fast forward to 2009. The nation is still at war (two wars, in fact), and now also faces the prospect of a severe recession and federal budget deficits topping $1 trillion as far as the eye can see. With Barack Obama’s inauguration estimated to cost $45 million (not counting the millions more that government will have to pay for security), is the Associated Press once again tsk-tsking the high dollar cost?

 

Nope. “For inaugural balls, go for glitz, forget economy,” a Tuesday AP headline advised. Read article.

 

Mitch Potter, The Star.com

 

Barack Obama's well-documented fascination with Abraham Lincoln is approaching obsession as his historic inauguration approaches. If the theme of the celebrations about to carry him to power is renewal, the subtext is Honest Abe.

 

On Tuesday, at precisely one minute before noon, Obama is to place his hand on the same Bible used by Lincoln as he is sworn in to office. Weather permitting, of course, and with forecasts suggesting a one-in-three chance of snow there remains the chance Library of Congress curators will keep the priceless tome under wraps. Read article.

 

Christopher Hitchens, Slate.com

 

Why are so many oligarchs, royal families, and special-interest groups giving money to the Clinton Foundation?

 

The deal struck by the wide-eyed incoming Obama administration is that the list of donors to the Clinton Foundation will be reviewed once every year and that only the new donations from foreign states—which already include an extraordinarily large number from Gulf sheikdoms—will be scrutinized by administration lawyers. How would we react if we read that this was the rule for the Vladimir Putin government, say, or former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's regime in Germany? Before me, for example, is the report of a pledge of $100 million to the Clinton Foundation's Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative by a set of companies based in Vancouver and known as the Lundin Group.

 

The ostensible purpose of this mind-boggling contribution is stated in the usual vacuous terms of "sustainable local economies," chiefly in Africa. All I know for sure about the Lundin Group is that it does quite a lot of business in Sudan. And all I can think to ask—as perhaps some senator might think to ask—is why such a big corporate interest doesn't just donate the money directly, rather than distributing it through the offices of an outfit run by a seasoned ex-presidential influence-peddler. What do they and the other donors suppose they are getting for their money? A good feeling? Read article.

 

Obama tries to seduce Republicans

Jonathan Martin, Politico.com

 

It's no secret Barack Obama is trying to seduce Republicans these days. But his conservative courting runs much deeper and wider than is publicly known.

 

Obama has had meetings with his former opponent John McCain, GOP congressional leaders and some of the country’s leading conservative commentators. He’s also honoring McCain and Colin Powell in high-profile pre-inaugural dinners, where Obama is expected to toast the Republicans.

 

Behind the scenes, Obama and his team are working just as hard, courting prominent Republicans and conservatives through frequent phone calls, e-mails and private sit-downs.

 

The selection of evangelical pastor Rick Warren for the inaugural invocation and Obama’s dinner with right-of-center writers at George F. Will’s home drew significant buzz. But the transition also has quietly reached out to other prominent figures atop the Southern Baptist Church, Charles Colson’s Prison Fellowship Ministry and the Jewish Orthodox Union.

 

“I think he’s done an extremely good job so far,” said Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who received a call from the president-elect last week. Read article.

 

Heritage.org

 

The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus noticed that Obama’s labor secretary nominee Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA) was a little less than forthcoming at her Senate confirmation hearing.

 

From secret ballots to pension fund oversight to financial transparency, organized labor has a laundry list if issues designed keep the public out of union boss business. After Solis’ testimony we are not a single step closer to knowing where Obama really stands on any of these issues. Read article.

 

Elaine L. Chao, Online WSJ.com

 

When President-elect Barack Obama initially announced his economic team, one important player was conspicuously absent: his pick for secretary of labor.

 

But America's work force is central to our economic recovery in the near term and to our sustained prosperity in the long term. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer driven. And most of that consumption depends on workers' paychecks.

 

The Labor Department has tremendous resources to protect American workers and help them be more competitive in the world-wide economy. The department also has the power to harm American worker competitiveness through misguided regulations and punitive policies that would cause jobs to go overseas or disappear entirely.

 

Over the past eight years, the Labor Department has worked hard to ensure that labor regulations protect workers, without needlessly making it harder to create and keep jobs in America. Read article.

 

Noemie Emery, DC Examiner.com

 

Obama never posed for a photo shoot, but this hardly mattered. Every picture he took looked just like a layout, evoking the Good Life as lived by the trendy and slender.

 

He didn’t look much, as he said, like the gods on Mount Rushmore, but he certainly looked like the new gods of style. Open the papers, open the magazines, open the catalogues; and there he or his stand-ins were likely to be.

 

Do not think that the fashion world didn’t sense this, and claim him as one of its own. As a blog called Hot Couture Fashion claimed in July, “Barack Obama...is now being treated as a new fashion icon,” sold as an item at stores round the world.

 

Anna Wintour held a fundraising fashion show for his benefit. Diane von Furstenburg designed a tote in his honor. He was endorsed by male models at Major Models, according to a blog known as Beautyconfessional.

 

He was “all the rage” during fashion week in Milan, where Donatella Versace dedicated her Spring-Summer collection to him, and called him “the man of the moment,” a “relaxed man who doesn’t need to flex muscles” to show he was strong. Read article.

 

Tony Blankley, Townhall.com

 

It was fairly common chatter from congressional Democrats in Washington during the autumn months of the presidential campaign that while Barack Obama was almost certain to win, in 2009 policy would be driven from the House speaker's office.

 

While I didn't doubt that the congressional Democrats would try to lead Obama around by the nose, I rather doubted that Obama would cooperate. When a fellow gets himself elected president, he is inclined to want to try his hand at some real governing. Read article.

 

Ben Lieberman & Jack Spencer, Heritage.org

 

The United States Senate will soon render its advice and consent to the nomination of Steven Chu as the new secretary of the Department of Energy (DOE).

 

In addition to overseeing the agency's duties conducting energy research and dealing with nuclear waste issues, a good secretary of energy also needs to stand as a secretary for energy--in favor of plentiful and affordable energy supplies for the American people and a supporter of the free market processes that work best to provide them.

 

The federal government already has several anti-energy forces in place, particularly the Environmental Protection Agency, whose statutory duties require it to impose environmental constraints on energy production and use, especially fossil fuels, and often without regard to cost. Therefore, it is an important part of the secretary of energy's job to act as a pro-energy counterweight to EPA rather than as a redundant anti-energy voice within the executive branch.

 

Therefore, when considering Chu for this post, the Senate should consider asking him the following questions. Read article.

 

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