Right on cue

Posted on October 6, 2004 by Gene

Well, this part of the vast right wing conspiracy didn’t take long to debut:

The Senate took a first step yesterday toward opening the presidency to foreign-born citizens, including a particular Austrian-born actor who is running the nation’s most populous state.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) held a two-hour hearing on his proposal, one of several in Congress to amend the Constitution by removing the requirement that only people born in the United States can be president.

… “This hearing would not be complete if the name of Arnold Schwarzenegger were not mentioned at least once,” testified Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), a close friend of Schwarzenegger’s who introduced a companion version of Hatch’s proposal last month in the House.