Politics: Onward from New Hampshire

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
His statements pretty clearly identified him as a supporter of the amendment. Do you really think that he can drop it? Yesterday you touted Bush's ability to be a stand-up guy as a big part of his popularity in non-PB America. Wouldn't this undermine that view among the Christian right or whoever else has been pushing him to "codify this one way or another"?

At the very least I think it would make it a little more sticky when he tried to paint Kerry as a flip-flopper during the general election.

Amendment to the US Constitution:
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.

Bush doesn't have to do anything more- it will never get through. At some point he can express regret that it didn't get through, but he certainly need not do much else. He can't get 2/3 of the senate to do anything.