Article I, Section. 2.
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
Article I, Section 3.
No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
Article I, Section. 4.
The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia are the only ones that still serve from the Court that interrupted the 2000 Presidential election with a misguided, political, anti-Constitutional, and anti-Democratic decision:
On December 8, 2000, the Florida Supreme Court ordered a manual recount of a substantial portion of these uncounted ballots.
The rest is history.
On December 9, 2000, five members of the U.S. Supreme Court stunned the nation by halting the Florida manual recount. Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor, and Kennedy claimed they wished to review its constitutional validity.
With two rounds of Florida election litigation behind them and the presidency hanging in the balance, Americans of all political stripes trusted the U.S. Supreme Court to provide for a satisfactory means of assessing the will of Florida's voters.
When night fell on December 12, that faith was betrayed. To conclude, and the logic is airtight here: if Newt was the idea man everyone says he is, then he will hold to this idea and enunciate the policies it would entail. He isn't; he won't.
If he was principled, and held to (any of) his wildly varying principles for more than a month then he would back up his idea with the most obvious example of activist judges in the last 25 years and call the the arrest of Scalia and Thomas. He isn't. He won't.
He's an idea man full of dumb ideas. Anyone who thinks he'd be a good president is a fool. Anyone who thinks he has principles should ask him to follow up just one more time and tell us which judges he'd arrest. That would show everyone just how anti-democratic and anti-Constitutional the Newt is. And it would confirm that when Republicans are calling Democrats names and accusing them of something, it's usually the Republicans who are doing it. And the fair and balanced media that's reporting it. |
