NONE of major presidential candidates promising to do what it would take to restore DEMOCRACY

[seemslikeadream]

None of the major presidential candidates are currently promising to do what it would take to restore democracy



http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/21/5381/

My readers are cranky, distrustful and smart. (You can read their comments at tedrall.com.) Rallblog readers are all over the place politically: old-school Democrats, Goldwater Republicans, libertarians, socialists, anarchists, even neoconservatives. But they’re speaking out as one about my call to expunge the legacy of the Bush Administration: Yes. Yes. Hell, yes!

Let’s make it happen!

Now is the time. Write (an actual letter, not email) to your favorite presidential candidate and declare that you are a single-issue voter. Swear that, if he or she agrees to sign the following Pledge, your vote is assured. If not, promise to stay home or vote for someone else.

“I, ______________, hereby solemnly pledge that my first act upon assuming the office of President shall be to sign an American Renewal Act of 2009, which shall declare all laws, regulations, executive orders, treaties and actions undertaken by the federal government during the illegitimate and unlawful administration of George W. Bush to be null, void and without effect.”

Sound crazy? So did Thomas Paine in 1775. As a practical and legal matter, however, consigning Bush to the dung heap of history makes more sense than revolting against the British.

[MiniMe]

1. For the democrats at least, it doesn't mean they won't do it

I think they will. The repukes of course, won't.

[Nictuku]

2. I don't think a President can actually do that

To declare all laws, regulations, executive orders and treaties null and void is more power than a President would have. Our country doesn't work that way.

While I agree with the sentiment, I don't think it has a leg to stand on, in our Democratic Republic. No president has (or should have) that much power.

Something like this would have to be supported by the Congress, as well as the Judiciary.

[DemGa]

3. And they won't

There are no investigations to back it up. The criminal Bush regime walks free.