Politician Sues God
State Senator Ernie Chambers of Nebraska is suing God.
He claims that God is making terroristic threats against him and his constituents. Chambers has filed his suit to dramatize the fact that another lawsuit is supposedly frivolous, one a woman filed against a Nebraska judge who barred her use of the words “rape†and “victim†in a sexual assault trial.
Except, as usual, Chambers finds a way to demonstrate the exact opposite. Her lawsuit seems of real interest. His? Well . . . frivolous.
When I first read the story I guess I wasn’t all that surprised to see Chambers’s name. You see, last year the good senator sued to overturn Nebraska’s term limits law.
Nebraska limits its legislators’ terms in office to eight years in a row in its single chamber, the unicameral. Voters enacted the limits three separate times, over some hostility from the state’s highest court and without any help from the so-called “representatives†of the people, folks like Chambers.
Sure, Senator Chambers himself demonstrates the need for term limits. And he likes to pretend that the whole idea was a plot to get him. But term limits are not aimed at one person. They cut across the board, bringing in new blood and also pushing out the old.
Chambers has been in office for the last 36 years. He’s termed out in 2008. Both God and man will be glad to see him move on.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
