Posted on 03/19/2012 4:28:54 AM PDT by SJackson
Thank you, RO!
It did need saying again.
I use to swallow that old cannard that the vote of the people IS term limits!! Not anymore, not in this indoctrinated society, compounded by total ignorance and naivete.
We actually do Term Limit the POTUS.....doesn't seem to be a problem.
Many states Term Limit their State Reps....doesn't seem to be a problem.
At this point.......these folks NEED to be actually Term Limited. Period.
I was JUST thinking of Ann!! Then your post pops up!
Contrary to we keyboard jockies, Ann walks and talks and is, IMHO, Breitbart II.
She is very intellegent, I believe. I mean she actually knows her history and needs no tutors, consultants, groomers, or lip stick maidens. She just kicks doors in for a past time. LOL!
Thank you.
“This EO is essentially identical to an EO issued regularly by presidents. Bush issued this twice in his 8 years.”
We didn’t have Obamacare or “Fast & Furious then. We didn’t have 35 or 40 Communist Czars then. We didn’t have Missah Chu, who wants (7.00 gal gas) back then.
Thanks, didn’t know that. Author should have and focused on changes, if any
Yeah, that's gonna work every time.
So, you also believe that you are so much smarter than the founding fathers - just like Obama.”
My god are you ill informed. Term limits (just as we have for the presidential office), means that Congressman and Senators are LIMITED to the number of terms that they can serve. They are VOTED into office just as they are now, however they would be prevented from making it a career, as they presently do.i.e Robert Byrd served 57 years.
As for the founding fathers, they never envisioned career politicians. The concept was that patriots would take a sabbatical from their daily work, be it farmer, baker, carpenter, businessman etc. and serve a limited period of time for the good of the country; and then return to their private lives. And no, I make no claim to be smarter than the Founding Fathers nor any else for that matter. However the Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, made provisions to amend the Constitution of the United States, which has been done 27 times. Thomas Jefferson wrote that every generation has “a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its own happiness.” Most of the time new laws or policies are sufficient to meet changing priorities, but when that’s not the case, the Founding Fathers provided for amending the Constitution of the United States. Washington is broken, its not working effectively, and a large part of this problem is because we have career politicians!
They kept raising their own salaries, perks......I don’t even want to discuss their insane pensions....why would they ever leave??
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