You sold me on it all except your proposed month. Let’s keep it in November and have the swearing in on Thanksgiving. We can learn to be grateful when we get our way AND when don’t :)
Ha! That would make the family dinners even more interesting! That pesky 20th Amendment hard codes in January, which itself is an interesting deviation from the original Constitution which allowed Congress to change the day at will. I'll have to write about that now that it is on my mind. Thanks!
Ok so, the 20th Amendment hard codes inauguration in January, so we declare the first Friday in January after the 1st (so it can be as late as 7th) to be a National Holiday with no businesses allowed to be open (zero, zilch, nada) only homebound and militarily deployed personnel are allowed to use any form of absentee ballot, zero mail-ins, no early voting, no drop boxes, no ballot harvesting, no same day registration, no electronic voting, all paper ballots with mandatory voter ID proving citizenship -- states have 24 hours to report their final vote totals -- the electoral college meets on the following Friday, Congress certifies on the following Monday and the new Administration takes office on the 20th -- only cabinet secretaries, their immediate deputies, ambassadors, and consul-generals should undergo the advice and consent of the senate, thus cutting down on the long backlog of advice and consent. Additionally, all federal employees above the GS-13 level should serve at the pleasure of the President, meaning draining the swamp becomes much easier. The entire "administrative law apparatus" ought to be eliminated -- the administrative "branch" of government does not make law, nor does it adjudicate the law. Those two functions are reserved by the constitution to the legislative and judicial branches of government. The executive branch and its subordinate administrative agencies are supposed to enforce the law. A radical solution obviously, one might even say an extremist position, but extremism in the pursuit of freedom for the American people is not a vice -- it ought to be a virtue of the highest order.
PS any recommendations for wildlife specialists for White Tail Deer, Wild Turkey and I've decided to add Elk and Pronghorn antelope to that list to work on the Tahiti project would be welcomed ;-)
You sold me on it all except your proposed month. Let’s keep it in November and have the swearing in on Thanksgiving. We can learn to be grateful when we get our way AND when don’t :)
Ha! That would make the family dinners even more interesting! That pesky 20th Amendment hard codes in January, which itself is an interesting deviation from the original Constitution which allowed Congress to change the day at will. I'll have to write about that now that it is on my mind. Thanks!
Ok so, the 20th Amendment hard codes inauguration in January, so we declare the first Friday in January after the 1st (so it can be as late as 7th) to be a National Holiday with no businesses allowed to be open (zero, zilch, nada) only homebound and militarily deployed personnel are allowed to use any form of absentee ballot, zero mail-ins, no early voting, no drop boxes, no ballot harvesting, no same day registration, no electronic voting, all paper ballots with mandatory voter ID proving citizenship -- states have 24 hours to report their final vote totals -- the electoral college meets on the following Friday, Congress certifies on the following Monday and the new Administration takes office on the 20th -- only cabinet secretaries, their immediate deputies, ambassadors, and consul-generals should undergo the advice and consent of the senate, thus cutting down on the long backlog of advice and consent. Additionally, all federal employees above the GS-13 level should serve at the pleasure of the President, meaning draining the swamp becomes much easier. The entire "administrative law apparatus" ought to be eliminated -- the administrative "branch" of government does not make law, nor does it adjudicate the law. Those two functions are reserved by the constitution to the legislative and judicial branches of government. The executive branch and its subordinate administrative agencies are supposed to enforce the law. A radical solution obviously, one might even say an extremist position, but extremism in the pursuit of freedom for the American people is not a vice -- it ought to be a virtue of the highest order.
PS any recommendations for wildlife specialists for White Tail Deer, Wild Turkey and I've decided to add Elk and Pronghorn antelope to that list to work on the Tahiti project would be welcomed ;-)