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From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:29:07 -0800
On 12/20/2012 5:57 PM, jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Requires someone with spine to pick your presidents.

You remind me I was just telling Carol again my plan for picking presidents.

Before reaching the minimum age set out in the Constitution, all citizens are 
required to take a test to weed out 
psycho/sociopaths not clever enough to beat the test. (Well, OK, an IQ test, 
too, but only 95 needed to pass.) If clever 
enough to beat the test, they are as sane as some of our past presidents.*

Then there is a lottery. Loser is President, second loser is VP, and vacancies 
on the Supreme court come next.

The 'winner' has the choice of serving in office or twice as long in prison. 
Congress may still impeach, and if thrown 
out or resigns, the prexy serves the time left in the original sentence.

There are details to be worked out. Probably best to put war powers back in the 
Congress, for example.

After a couple of rounds of random citizen presidents, I expect a groundswell 
for extending the idea to Congress and the 
States. :-)

Controlled Anarchy Moose

* To get started, try Nixon vs. Nixon. 
<http://www.amazon.com/Nixon-vs-An-emotional-tragedy/dp/0374222754>

BTW, I enjoyed Nixon's presidency. Oh so smart and oh so bent, hardly a dull 
moment before the end. The crook who opened 
up China.

His whole political history is one of amazing opposites. Don't remember the 
plan to eliminate the welfare system that he 
and Democrat senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan cooked up? Check it out. You'll be 
amazed and/or outraged. Talk about odd 
political bedfellows ...

BBTW, the spell chucker suggested Mohandis in place of Moynihan. :-)

-- 
What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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