You Mean You Don’t?
Jeb Bush was asked by the Washington Post if he liked Donald Trump’s idea of revoking the 14th Amendment for children born in the country of immigrant parents.
Jeb’s answer started this way …
“There are like 10 things I would change in the Constitution with a magic wand,” Bush said.
Jeb, maybe your brother will lend you his.
The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868 to to establish birthright citizenship so that freed slaves would be guaranteed the rights and protections that come with citizenship.
Now Republicans want to think about that a little more.
How about: revoke citizenship from anyone who votes Republican?
1Let me guess.
2Amendments 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14.
This explains why Jeb thinks he might win the presidency. He has a magic wand. Who knew?
3Revoking the Birthright Citizenship retroactively back to 1620 would get my support…
A 395 year clean slate might be a good way to wipe out the screwing up we have done…
Of course that would put the remaining US Citizens in charge…
4I imagine they would do well tackling the environmental problems, and racial problems we have…
web! … the “smarter Bush” …
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Kdf9AV93Buo/VdKT1khFDII/AAAAAAABTaw/E_hmD59Mt3k/s640/anderson.jpg
Triangulation for Dummies, or the effort by John Ellis “I’m Not a Bush” to distance himself from Dubya, avoid being spit on by T-Rump and disentangle his magic wand from $Rmoney’s magic underwear.
5I hope it’s retroactive: everyone who is a descendent of the original settlers should also be made to leave as well as everyone who came after. I bet the American Indians would be ecstatic.
6If _I_ had a magic wand I would target Article II Section I:
“No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.”
My improvement would read thusly:
Article II Section I subclause A:
“A test of basic intelligence shall be administered by a person professionally licensed by a state other than the one of which the presidential aspirant was born or the one in which he currently resides.”
There. THAT ought to cut down the field of candidates considerably.
7Look back in history and look at the regimes and political movements that impaired or withdrew human rights from their populace. Do Republicans really want to be associated with that?
8and is the 19th there? That’s the one where Women were allowed to vote.
Since Perry was stumped at 3, what are the odds that JEB will be stumped at 10?
9UmptyDump-
Yes.
10I vote that anyone who states that they will immediately violate the Constitution of the United States should immediately be removed from the slate of whichever election they’ve entered.
What a bunch of numbnuts.
11Good thing these “Founding Fathers said” people can’t change anything.
12Right, you don’t like it, propose an amendment to change it.
I don’t think it would pass, but it’s always instructive to see how badly something like that fails (or how close it gets to passing).
13I’m trying to wipe from my brain the image of JEB! in a tutu waving his magic wand. Glitter everywhere….
I’d like to change a few things about the constitution. The Equal Rights Amendment would be a nice start. And that intelligence test that two crows wants is tempting. And the 2nd Amendment should apply only to guns used in 1789; otherwise you need a test and a license the way you do for driving, and you can’t wave the things around in public unless you’re really part of a well-trained militia.
Perhaps fortunately, considering the caca that’s often proposed, it’s not easy to change the Constitution, JEB!
14Worth remembering: There are actually some amendments worth having: 1. Money isn’t speech. 2. Corporations aren’t people.
See http://movetoamend.org
15A magic wand? So he’s aspiring to be Voldemort lite?
16Rhea, add his pet unicorn and the picture is complete!
17Adam Eran – Hear, hear! I’m a member, tho not very active, I’m afraid.
18LynnN –
Not possible. Voldemort is alive and well, and the CURRENT governor of Florida.
19Don’t waste your magic wand glitter JEB!.
20The Executive branch is not involved in
Amendments.
It’s stuff like this that makes me believe union-busting Kochsucker Scott Walker will be the eventual Republican nominee. He’d love to make the same mess of the entire republic that he’s made of Wisconsin. Shudder.
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