Ominous music swells...

There are a number of things I want to blog about tonight, and I'm too tired to really do it. News stories that Scooter Libby rolled on Dick Cheney and testified that Cheney ordered him to leak the classified information. Stories about Bill Frist adding text to a bill after the House/Senate resolution had happened. Stories about Michael Brown trying to extort the White House for a lawyer, or he'll testify before Congress (as if it were a good thing to avoid Congressional advice and consent). And one story I just heard that seems to imply that the NSA wiretapping program actually predated the Congressional resolution on Terror, which would kind of throw a monkey wrench into the White House's primary defense.

But as I said, I'll have to get to those tomorrow or another day. For today, let me just post this link.

And for those who hate following links, it goes to the Library of Congress. It is the text of a proposed Amendment, sponsored by Reps Hoyer, Berman, Sensenbrenner, Sabo and Pallone. That text is:

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`The twenty-second article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is repealed.'.

And for those who don't wish to bother looking it up, the 22nd was passed in 1947, and it sets term limits on the office of the President.

Yep, they're actually proposing a measure that would allow President Bush to run again. And with their friends at Diebold, if they repeal that Amendment, President Bush would more than likely steal yet another election, no matter HOW low his approval rating was.

Watch this one carefully, folks. I don't know what the game is, but I don't like it.

Liam.

[UPDATE: It just occurred to me why this amendment thing would backfire. Who is the one Democrat that Republicans most fear? Bill Clinton. If they pass this amendment, Clinton could run again, and judging by the reactions each got at Coretta Scott King's funeral, and the extent to which Bush seems to be trying to tie himself to Clinton of late, I think even if they DID hack the voting machines, they'd have a hard time convincing the population that Bush legitimately beat Clinton.]