Mourdock: first the 17th, now the the 22nd

Tea Party candidate Richard Mourdock made a public display (I think unless he's taken it off his website) about jettisoning the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution.  You  know (or maybe you don't) the one that allows you, the citizen to directly elect your US Senators.  Yes, Tea Party Richard prefers you not get that opportunity.  But hey, he's not extreme.

It now comes to life that Tea party Richard may have a whole list of Constitutional Amendments he wants to eliminate.  Next up, the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution.  In an interview with the Wabash Conservative Union, Mourdock not only opines about the need to get rid of the 22nd Amendment, but uses President George W. Bush as the example:

WCU: What elements of the conservative movement are most vital and how would you define the movement today?

Mourdock: The element that is most vital is the one I think we are most failing on and it is communication. In many ways I think President Bush is an example of why the twenty-second amendment is a bad idea. The twenty-second amendment limits the president’s terms to two. I sometimes think that the day after President Bush was reelected he realized he didn’t have to deal with the media any more, he doesn’t have to make the argument and I don’t think that is a good thing. If he was even thinking about running for a third term, then he would be promoting his ideas more. I think he has the right ideas almost without exception, almost, and I don’t think he is selling those ideas.

I wonder if that was on his website?  Okay, so the next question, does Tea Party Richard have his own "Kill List" for Constitutional Amendments he wants eliminated?

Comments

[Ryan Farmer]

To be fair, if people would keep re-electing Bush as he started more and more wars of choice and burnd through trillions of dollars of Social Security and Chinese money to pay for them, they are obviously too stupid to make a good choice about who they want in the senate.

I say we follow up Citizens United with a new constitutional amendment that explicitly states that all of our representatives are hand picked by AT&T, Coca Cola, Microsoft, Exxon-Mobil, Walmart, and the rest.

After all, business profitability trumps human rights, and since businesses of that size already pay no taxes, they shouldn't have to spend billions of dollars a year lobbying and buying political propaganda to direct at an electorate which mostly thinks the Earth was made a few hundred years ago in its current form, over a span of six days.

(This was mostly sarcasm for anyone who isn't following me.)