is barf inducing. Obviously Mr. Bell is suffering from “leg tingling syndrome.” We just haven’t had the chance yet to see that Brown will probably will be to the left of McCain, his benefactor. Obamaromneycare will make Romney a non-starter.

Really? That is facinating, I never knew that little bit of trivia.

Not that they’re both from the same state, but that the state is Massachusetts.

Brown’s a great, unexpected improvement over everyone who’s held that seat for the last 50 years, but don’t fool yourself into thinking he’ll be a reliable conservative vote more than half the time.

Let’s work hard to keep Scott Brown in his Senate seat, where he can do us worlds of good, and far away from the Executive Branch, where he’ll be a constant source of disappointment.

Sarah Palin was horribly unqualified for the presidency, (which she was not running for) yet Obama is? The hardest he goes on Obama is that he doesn’t “know” him. Apparently he still doesn’t.

Spare me the obligatory jabs on Palin and I’d say this was an excellent article.

It just means that we couldn’t get the Massachusetts electoral votes, since the electors are barred from voting for someone of their state for President and Vice.

But we’re not getting those EVs anyway, heh.

…but Christopher Buckley is in my penalty box. I see no reason to read either him or Peggy Noonan for a while. Same goes for listening to Colin Powell or David Brooks…these guys all sold out the red team for the “cool” Barack Obama, and called us all morons in the process.

They should have seen what the rest of us saw in 2008 – an empty suit. A microwaved version of the worst of FDR and LBJ in one speechified package. Instead, they crapped on our candidates, told us we were a part of the wilderness, and said we needed to get with the program.

So now, one by one, they’re crawling back. No thanks. Peggy no doubt flipped over to Obama to maintain her place on the list of D.C.’s best cocktail parties. Who knows with the others. In any case, columnists derive their relevance from the number of people dropping by to read their words. Count me out.

According to this article about his role in the Brown campaign:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-17/mitt-romneys-man/full/

Quote:

“Wrentham is best known for its shopping outlets. Romney, before recently decamping for New Hampshire, lived in Belmont, a tony Boston suburb, home to Harvard professors and families who send their kids to local private schools.”

Good discussion subject.

Does the Constitutionally authorized power of Congress to expel a member necessarily rerstrict a state from doing the same thing under the reserved rights of the 10th Amendment? Seems as though the wording would have granted Congress the exclusive power to do so, if that was what the Founders meant.

I am totally against anything that would allow for the recall of federal officeholders. This “ACRU”, in calling for a “Right of Recall” for every state, is advocating something very dangerous.

The reason Senate terms are staggered, so that only a third of the chamber comes up for re-election every two years, is that the Founders wisely foresaw the rise of a figure like Obama; understood the danger of the entire government being thrown out in a single election cycle; and wrote staggered Senate terms into the Constitution as a safeguard to prevent that from happening. If all congressmen and senators were subject to recall at any point in their terms it would throw the country into chaos. (I know, as opposed to what we have now, right?) Control of the government could shift wildly back and forth as senators and congressmen of both parties were targeted for recall by the opposition on an as-needed basis. Harry Reid having trouble getting 60 votes for health-care? The Democrats just have to find a state with a Republican senator and launch a recall drive. If getting enough names on the petition is a worry, the Dems just make sure the state they’ve targeted also has a Democrat Secretary of State to help “ensure” a recall election makes it onto the ballot. Then just recruit a popular former governor or senator or what-have-you to run against the Republican senator, pair him or her with a massive propaganda blitz against the recall target, and voila. Repeat wherever and whenever necessary. The Republicans, in turn, counterattack in the same fashion. There would be no end to it, and no end to the ways in which the procedure would be abused.

The reason we “suffer” Senators like Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu is that we keep re-electing them. In Louisiana, a conservative state in which Obama was soundly defeated and had zero coattails, and where Landrieu’s history was well-established, we re-elected her anyway. Louisianians have no right to demand a “do-over” to rescue ourselves from our own stupid decision. The solution is not to recall the Landrieus, the Nelsons, the Lincolns, the Bayhs; but for the citizens of these states to pay close attention to what’s now happening, take a lesson from the health-care nightmare about how their vote for Congress affects everything, and take steps to correct the situation at election time. That’s called “taking responsibility”, something of which the respective promoters of recall in these states are seeking to absolve themselves.

This is a very common misconception about the 12th Amendment. What it says is that :electors” can not vote for “of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of their own state”. This was a very deliberate way of not allowing the larger states to obfuscate the electoral process.

My read is it is still possible to elect a President and Vice President from the same state- even though some still believe it is unconstitutional- which I would challenge.

Remember this came up initially with Bush-Cheney and to avoid it Cheney changed his legal state of residence back to Wyoming from Texas. However, it was done to avoid any potential distraction caused by a challenge, not because it was believed to be unconstitutional.

By the way, who wants Romney anyway.