Oink Oink

This year’s pork book is out. Read about here. then check out the full thing here.

This year it seems Democrats top the list of porkers, which I am sure we all find so shocking.

Hawaii Reps. Neil Abercrombie and Mazie Hirono, both Democrats, topped the list for earmarks in the House of Representatives. Abercrombie’s pet projects received a total of almost $257 million; Hirono’s received almost $153 million.

The annual Pork-a-saurus award goes to Sen. Harry Reid for requesting $143,000 for the Las Vegas Natural History Museum. Dude, there are museums in Vegas? I mean, besides the Elvis one…

Stay Awake Folks

Not to poop on the revelry of inauguration day, but I think it is interesting that the mainstream press has failed to report that a Joint Resolution has gone before the house that would repel the 22nd Amendment. For those of you who have forgotten the 22nd Amendment, it reads as follows:

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

The current resolution, H.J. Res 5, reads as follows:

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 6, 2009

Mr. SERRANO introduced the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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JOINT RESOLUTION

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second article of amendment, thereby removing the limitation on the number of terms an individual may serve as President.

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:

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

Hmmm…interesting timing.