Are Congressional recalls “Off the table?”

Plato said, “Necessity is the mother of invention”. Fine! I can live with that! Sen. Obama built a political machine to help win his Presidential ambitions. He had a need, hence the invention. An invention that was to the amazement, envy and awe of world wide political circles and governments resonating to this very day.

Regarding the President’s baby, Baby Health Reform, the President is hell bent on seeing its birth even if he has to deliver it himself and he needs help from all the mid-wives and mid-husbands he can get into the operation room. He is going to deliver! He’s determined! (Smile)

Obama to campaign for public option in health care
by tsackton
Excerpt:

But Mr. Obama has grown concerned that he is losing the debate over certain policy prescriptions he favors, like a government-run insurance plan to compete with the private sector, said one Democrat familiar with his thinking. With Congress beginning a burst of work on the measure, top advisers say, the president is determined to make certain the final bill bears his stamp.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/6/739615/-Obama-to-campaign-for-public-option-in-health-care

And
Healthcare reform and political realities
by Darcy Burner
Excerpt:

Nearly all of the members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus support single payer. But 80 CPC members is a far cry from 218, which is what's needed to pass things in the House.
There are not 218 votes for single payer in the House. Single payer cannot happen in this environment right now, regardless of how passionately its advocates want it.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/6/739460/-Healthcare-reform-and-political-realities

However, I ran into a tiny bit of a problem with my metaphor. I felt I could take it to the point we helpers could start “Re-call” campaigns of the Congresspersons opposed to the Single Payer part of his bill. I thought we could use the President’s new political invention to do it but it seems there are Constitutional issues raised in being a dissatisfied customer having desires to re-call your Congressperson. Damn! “If it’s not my sheep it’s my cow”.
Fighting for the dignity of my Ancestors,
God bless Bill Gates, WPFW, C-Span and the spirits of the unborn for the help
BB

Efforts under way to recall Senator Ashburn
Excerpt:

Following the lengthy state budget impasse, a Bakersfield man is taking steps to recall 18th District California State Republican Senator Roy Ashburn for breaking a pledge.
Michael Moore, business owner and self-proclaimed Libertarian, said he is pursuing the action primarily because Ashburn had signed a “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” in 2006 promising his constituents that he would not raise taxes and then did exactly that by voting for the mid-year 2008-09 and the 2009-10 budget that would potentially raise taxes for residents by $16 billion over the next four years.
http://www.inyoregister.com/content/view/120750/27/

And
Why Effort To Recall Cao Won't Work
Excerpt:

ORLEANS -- A move to recall Louisiana's Second District Rep. Joseph Cao may be a moot effort regardless of the support it receives.
The Congressional Research Service -- which analyzed the constitutionality of such actions -- found no precedent in the history of the nation, and noted that the Founding Fathers made sure to exempt federal lawmakers from recalls.

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As to removal by recall, the United States Constitution does not provide for nor authorize the recall of United States officers such as Senators, Representatives, or the President or Vice President, and thus no Member of Congress has ever been recalled in the history of the United States.

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The recall of Members was considered during the time of the drafting of the federal Constitution in 1787, but no such provisions were included in the final version sent to the States for ratification, and the specific drafting and ratifying debates indicate an express understanding of the Framers and ratifiers that no right or power to recall a Senator or Representative from the United States Congress exists under the Constitution.
http://www.wdsu.com/politics/18753622/detail.html