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Obama's First Constitutional Crisis: Is Hillary Barred From Sec'y State?

Oh boy!  This is going to ruffle some feathers (no Thanksgiving pun intended):

Pete Williams of NBC raised the question on MSNBC this afternoon: Is Hillary Clinton barred by the Constitution from accepting the post of secretary of state?

Article One, Section Six of the U.S. Constitution says:

No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been increased during such time; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.

This is not the first time this Article has stood in the way of a cabinet appointment. In 1973, at the height of Watergate, President Richard Nixon nominated William Saxbe (R) to be Attorney General and the issue was raised because Saxbe was in the Senate in 1969 when the Attorney General’s pay was raised.

In that instance, Congress lowered the pay for the AG, allowing the appointment to proceed. Democratic Senators complained, however, and 10 senators actually voted against the transparent scheme on constitutional grounds. At the time, Sen. Robert C. Byrd deemed it was clearly unconstitutional saying we should not delude the American people into thinking a way can be found around the constitutional obstacle.

Pre-Thanksgiving Global Warming Update

Why let facts get in the way of a popular movement?  Just ignore those men at NASA and all their troublesome data showing that the oceans are in fact cooling.  Pay no attention to the proof that sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record.  And what ever you do, don't for one minute buy into the fear of some scientists that the earth may face a freeze worse than the Ice Age.  Evidence that the earth is cooling means nothing because Al Gore has captured our attention and told us that we've got trouble, right here in River City, and that starts with "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for, well, you get the picture:

What A Bunch Of Friggin' Cowards!

This from WebIndia:

One of two bombers who struck in Baghdad Monday was a mentally disabled woman whose explosives were detonated by remote control, officials said.

Brig. Gen. Qassim Atta, an Iraqi military spokesman, told CNN the incident outside the city's Green Zone was the latest in a series of terrorist bombings in which woman have been used to launch attacks.

At least 18 people, including 15 women, died in the two Monday attacks, officials said.

In the Green Zone incident, two women -- one reportedly pregnant -- were among the five victims when an explosives vest strapped to the mentally disabled woman detonated in a line of workers waiting to be searched at a checkpoint, The Times of London reported.

 

Obama Brings His "Ex" Along For The Honeymoon

Remember this line from the presidential campaign:

“I can take 4 more weeks of McCain’s attacks, but America can’t take 4 more years of failed McCain\Bush” policies!"

Upon that rock he built his church.  Now the wedding is over and the honeymoon has begun, and guess who Obama has brought along on the honeymoon:

President-elect Barack Obama will keep Defense Secretary Robert Gates in that job for at least a year, according to an official familiar the two men’s discussions.

Obama is expected to announce the selection of Gates and other members of a national security brain trust next week. Gates has served as President George W. Bush’s defense chief for two years.

Gates, a moderate with long-standing ties to Republican administrations and the Bush family, would fulfill an Obama pledge to include a Republican in his Cabinet.

Retaining Gates provides stability for a stretched military fighting two wars during the turbulent changeover in administrations. Gates once said it was inconceivable that he would stay on past the close of Bush’s term on Jan. 20.

That sound you hear in the background is John McCain grinding his teeth.

The Whiff Of JFK Surrounding Obama

For those of you over 55, and those of you of any age who pay attention, the events of the first few weeks of the Obama transition may look familiar.  While the unseen enemy creeping around in the shadows in the early days of the Bush presidency ultimately flew airplanes into the World Trade Center, history teaches us that some who wish us ill do not end in a flash, they start out with one.

The circumstances facing the new president are unnervingly reminiscent of those faced by a similarly young and hopeful JFK.  Let's hope this time, we avoid the blunders that doomed us to two more decades of an expensive and dangerous cold war.  This from Politico:

Joe Biden has warned that hostile nations would quickly "test" the young new president with a "generated crisis," and Biden seems to have been right.

But the challenge didn't come from the part of the world Obama spent the most of his campaign discussing, the broader Middle East. On the day after he won the election, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev offered an aggressive warning that he would respond to a planned NATO anti-missile shield by moving nuclear weapons to its western enclave of Kaliningrad. And the sword-rattling has continued: Tuesday, the Russian navy began joint exercises near Caracas with Venezuela's military.

Obama enters office signaling that he will continue the policies of President Bush's late second term in Iraq and Afghanistan, and key architects of those policies, starting with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, will likely keep their jobs. That would leave Russia as the unexpected laboratory for Obama to shape his own foreign policy.

Obama's New Theme Song Should Be......

Okay, so conservatives ran screaming like Japanese run from Godzilla when the votes showed Barack Obama won the presidency.  At the same time leftie loonies holding the USSR flag were celebrating his victory at his election night party.

Now, just a few weeks into the transition, Obama has begun appointing his cabinet and his White House team.  Conservative talk show hosts like Hannity and Limbaugh are so damning and critical of Obama that quite frankly, even to conservatives like me who love talk radio, they are starting to sound a bit like whiney, shrill nit pickers not worthy of serious consideration.

And now it seems the left is all over Obama for breaking his promise to bring real change to Washington.  Of course that's what they are saying is their complaint, that he is appointing the old guard from Clinton's administration, but in reality the left is upset that Obama seems to be becoming a centrist, who may in fact govern from the middle.

So, just to wake you up a bit on this chilly Wednesday before Thanksgiving, here is my suggestion for Obama's theme song:

Well I don't know why I came here tonight,
I got the feeling that something ain't right,
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs,
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you.

Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
And I'm wondering what it is I should do,
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Well you started out with nothing,
And you're proud that you're a self made man,
And your friends, they all come crawlin,
Slap you on the back and say,
Please.... Please.....

Trying to make some sense of it all,
But I can see that it makes no sense at all,
Is it cool to go to sleep on the floor,
'Cause I don't think that I can take anymore
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

Well you started out with nothing,
And you're proud that you're a self made man,
And your friends, they all come crawlin,
Slap you on the back and say,
Please.... Please.....

Well I don't know why I came here tonight,
I got the feeling that something ain't right,
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs,
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you,
Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
Stuck in the middle with you.

Morning Funnies

My Newest Video From "The Conceived In Liberty Project"

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Want "THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE'S" Take On The Presidency Of "W"? *** WARNING***Not for the squeamish.

Pat Buchanan's publication "The American Conservative"ran with it's summary of the Bush administration in the November issue.  Here is the front cover.  As I said, if you are a Big Bush fan and get squeamish when he is criticized, I'd skip reading this one: