Posted on 02/04/2014 7:03:15 AM PST by Kaslin
This is why we need a constitutional amendment to allow only one 6 year term for the House and Senate. No re-election. You serve and then you hand the keys over. So many things could be corrected by this.
Interesting read. Thanks for posting.
As long as we have the Establishment Turds running things in the House and the Senate, that’s not going to happen.
The goosesteppers in the electorate love electing psycho goosesteppers to political office. (and they’ll do it forever.)
IMHO
“The Class of 1974 also shifted the House and the congressional Democratic Party from hawkish to dovish. One of its first acts in March 1975 was to block funding for South Vietnam when it was under attack by the North. Saigon fell in April. “
And thus have the blood of millions on their hands.
All of the democrat rats leaving a sinking ship.I just hope their retirements go the same way.
One of its first acts in March 1975 was to block funding for South Vietnam when it was under attack by the North. Saigon fell in April. “
But our Republicans can’t block anything.
I don’t disagree with the idea of term limits.
My plan is 12 years - two 6-year terms in the Senate or six 2-year terms in the House.
Rightly or wrongly, a legislative body needs to have some institutional stability and history. With the kind of turnover that we’d see if everyone was restricted to six years, it would not be good for the nation.
Speaks volumes about the permanent political class.
Thank God..... it certainly took long enough!
I like your plan better. Frequent elections in the House were intended to keep representatives responsive to the people.
Thank you. Beat me to it. The Democrat Party has the murder of millions of poor Asians on its hands. But we’re the only ones who will ever say it out loud.
The Framers had enough experience with the electoral process to fear long, popularly derived terms.
The 17th Amendment did two horrible things. It introduced six year popular terms and kicked the states out of the senate. There was no way the government could tyrannize the states or people as long as the states appointed senators.
Those amendments from 101 years ago are why America 2014 is police state.
So long as we have the American people, nothing will change.
And if the D’s de-funded a war, why can’t the R’s de-fund bamacare?
well...at least they left the country better than they found it (extreme sarcasm)
Good riddance to all of them!
The only other members of the Class of 1974 are Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, one of only 17 Republican freshmen elected that year, and Congressman Rick Nolan, who retired from the House in 1980 but was elected again in 2012 after 32 years in the private sector.
Grassley was elected to the House in '74 of course, Senate in 1980. Damn that Nolan!!! I want em all gone!!!
Strange the way things work out. Unless we beat him (which is possible but not likely), Nolan, a guy who retired before I was born and whom most people forgot about, will be the last watergate baby left thanks to a 2012 comeback in a mostly different district.
If Grassley, a Republican, outlasts him that would be the ultimate irony.
I think I neglected to include you in this ping
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