Limbaugh claims Obama is "rewrit[ing]" Constitution and will do so in the future
April 27, 2009 2:44 pm ET


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ROFL! I think Rush may have been hibernating the past 8 years and just woke up! He thinks Obama is George W Bush ...
By all means, Rush, continue with your smears and hysteria about Obama.
Then your party can join the Whigs in the ashheap of history.
This clip needs a little more context. I'm not sure what "rewriting" Limbaugh is referring to. Plus, when Limbaugh says "I'm paraphrasing", then declaring the proceeding stuff 'misinformation' is like shooting fish in a barrel. In order to effectively refute his lie, it must be reproduced sufficiently to be refuted in its entirety.
Of course, if that's all he said about the matter, then it's easy to refute anyway.
I don't know about "rewriting" the U.S. Constitution, but there can and maybe should be a few more Amendments to it.
Like the power the President has to make "recess appointments", not only was that power abused by George W. Bush to force business agents pretending to be Judges onto our Federal Courts, but it's sort of archaic anyway, "recess appointments" are, from a time when Congress could only reconvene in an emergency by way of horses! That's when that emergency power was written into the Contitution and given to the President, back in a day when Senators would return from their far-flung States by way of horses! George W. Bush abused that Presidential power, and it's archaic and from a non-jetting age, and so maybe it should be rescinded.
The Congress requires a super-majority to do a number of things, like to remove Officials from Office, or to expel Members, to over-ride the President's veto, and to even change their own Rules: but a simple majority can declare War, and grant the President War Powers? Again, that was abused under George W. Bush: we'd have never gone into IRAQ, had a super-majority of Congress been required to grant the President that authority. Maybe that should be Amended.
Everyone finds fault with the manner in which we elect the President, fault with the "electoral college", and the fault they often cite is that it is an unrepresentative (unrepresentative of the popular vote) manner of election... which is true, because each State's electoral ballot is based on their Congressional delegation, and those delegations are not truly representaive of those state's populations, because when the two Senators per state are factored into those delegations, they are skewed unrepresentative of the population, seeing as two Senators per state has nothing to do with the population of the States. The fix? Amend the "electoral college" to make each State's Presidential electoral ballot based not on the total Congressional delegation of that State, but just on it's House delegation... fixed! (But it'll never happen, not in a million years: because the smaller States and their Senators would never yield the unrepresenative power they hold, by supporting the Amendment that would do that... so, not fixed! But it's a good idea just the same.)
Lastly, repeal the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution! That's the Amendment that limits your right to vote, and prohibits you from voting for whoever you like as President, particularly in the event that you wish to return a two term President to Office (for whatever reasons you like, maybe even for the same reasons you voted him twice into that Office), it's undemocratic, and it's nothing but a limitation on your right to vote... repeal the 22nd Amendment!
Anyway, that's four things I can think of right there, to "rewrite" into or out of the Constitution... gimme a couple of minutes, and I'll think of four more...
But there's none better than repealing the anti-democratic anti-voting rights 22nd Amendment!
On the other hand, I wouldn't mind perhaps extending the terms of people in the House so that they aren't constantly running for reelection.
However, let's repeal the electoral college, and then find out how to go back in time to the year 2000 and get rid of it then.