[sodpoodle]

Term limits!!!!!

The Founders could not have anticipated the Industrial age or the age of computerized vote fraud or that the US population would eventually reach 300 million souls.

To guarantee the Constitution - the professional politician must be removed and replaced with Citizen representation. To ensure this the only certain method is TERM LIMITS!!

[GonzoGOP]

To guarantee the Constitution - the professional politician must be removed and replaced with Citizen representation. To ensure this the only certain method is TERM LIMITS!!

And limit the House session to three months following the State of the Union. The less time the congress critters are in session the less trouble they can cause. First they have to pass the budget. No other legislation until that gets done. Figure that will take up most of the time. Healthcare, stimulus, bailouts and the rest could never have happened if the clock were ticking on Nancy and Co. The president can call them into special session for national emergencies like declaring war, but other than that get them the heck outside the beltway as fast as possible.

The executive was supposed to carry out the instruction of the House, not create legislation. Caretakers for an absent landlord, not the owners. The Senate was always supposed to be a professional body controlled by the states. That is why it is tasked with approvals of treaties, judges and cabinet posts. The House was supposed to be a part time job. Return the branches of government to their original status and even term limits will become less necessary.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Term limits is the second stupidest idea to be put forward to get control of government.

Think for a second.

What power will the entrenched beauracracy pick up if term limits are put into place?

What about the unelected and unaccountable staffers that run Congress?

A freshman Congressman is like a lost little puppy for months in the maze that is Congress and Congressional rules.

We already have a very effective system for controlling our Congressmen: elections.

No Congressman can serve more than 2 years without convincing voters to send him back for another terms. If the American voter is too stupid or lazy to use this system to remove a corrupt politician, term limits are not going to help.

[OneWingedShark]

Term limits may be a good idea; however at this point they would be only a ‘band-aid’ on the symptoms — big government.
This can be illustrated by the recent bills which our legislators (read Congress) have neither written nor read; these bills were produced by “Congressional Aides.” Term Limits would not, necessarily, remove these Aides.

[zwerni]

Amen - it is the ONLY hope - term limits. I have believed that for years.

Too bad it will never happen...