Poll: Should the U.S. Congress have term limits? [vanity]

A Daily Poll ^ | June 5, 2009 | Dave Miller (tenger)

[tenger]

Poll: Should the U.S. Congress have term limits? A Daily Poll
and
Is America Good? A Weekly Poll.

[mgc1122]

Absolutely not ... they should have to serve every day they are sentenced. ;)

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt lol

[cblue55]

LOL! How true, how true!

[flash2368]

ABSOLUTELY!!

I do not think the country would have ever descended into the hell it is in if Representatives and Senators were “Normal” everyday citizens who served a term or two and went back to REAL life. Lifetime members of Congress have no interest or care and more importantly no real knowledge of the real world back home. Kick all the bums out far as I am concerned.

[Tuketu]

OBVIOUSLY! The ruling class has lost touch with the people and only answers to their Party.

[numberonepal]

100% yes with 69 votes.

[PhilCollins]

Since presidents have term limits, U.S. senators and reps. should also have term limits. Four U.S. senators have been in office for at least 36 years, and all of them are Democrats.

[gdani]

No. We already have term limits. They're called "elections".

Furthermore, term limits prevent re-election of those few pols I actually like. Why should I be prevented from voting for the candidate of my choice?

[rightwingextremist1776]

Ohh...I wouldn't worry about that....pols are like flys....kill one and two more pop up and take their place. So far the few “good” ones haven't been able to stem the flow of the “bad” ones.....this country needs to be taken back somehow....term limits is a very good place to start.

[ReeseBN38416]

Absolutley there should be term limits for Congress. The more chaos in Washington the better.

[dfwgator]

Yes! Next question.

[Recon Dad]

I've heard this B*llSh*t for years and it is absolutely NOT true. With the bribes, yes bribes they take from every lobbyist and union no one has a chance running against them.
Just look at the return rate on incumbents and your argument falls apart like a cheap suitcase.

[gdani]

Just look at the return rate on incumbents and your argument falls apart like a cheap suitcase.

If it's so impossible, how did the Repubs gain 54 seats in the 1994 House elections?

How did the Dims get 21 seats in 2008?

[mrmeyer]

I think that one term is enough. The Founders wanted citizen statesmen and not career politicians.

[mrmeyer]

One more point...I’d also like to see voice voting eliminated. It’s cowardly.

[556x45]

Not really....the population thats truly lost touch is the electorate. No law or body of laws will correct that. If we don’t trust them now why would we trust them to write a term limits law???? Until the people of this country get off their fat lazy rear ends nothing is going to change. We hold the power right now but are too lazy and apathetic to use it. Change isn’t going to come from DC, it’ll come from us!

[chiefqc]

100% yes and live by the same rules as the rest of the country.

[cliff630]

You say ABSOLUTELY!!

I, too, used to think that term limits was the problem.
"No more. It's "ONE MAN, ONE VOTE." That's what is
destroying our country.

e.g. Thomas Sowell's vote is offset by say 50 homeless
individuals found by Acorn. Count the number of
illiterate folks or those who never went past the
5th grade. Their votes surely exceed the votes of the
owners of small businesses by huge margins.

How many voters are on welfare, rent subsidies, food
stamps? Their votes overwhelm those who are struggling
with two or more jobs.

Another way to put it is "the takers vastly exceed the
givers." Why would the takers want to change the
welfare state we are in?

[ex91B10]

Congress has a built-in term limit. It's called the vote.

No one in, say, NH has a right to limit the choice of representitives in CA and visa versa.