Posted on 04/02/2016 6:38:24 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Cutthroat Republican interference with this presidential election might cause a lot of Americans to finally acknowledge that a congress composed of well-fed career politicians is not beneficial to the public
In the 1960s, when flower children replaced American traditions with a “feel-good” counter-culture, their rallying cry was: “Don’t trust anyone over 30.” Now in their declining years, these elderly flower children must surely experience deja vu when they witness the antics of today’s post-pubertal do-gooders. Like the flower children, today’s young people are driven to correct what they perceive as society’s flaws. This is their “Rite of Passage”, the sociological term for ritualistic behaviors engaged in as young persons mature into adulthood.
The 2016 motto should be “Don’t Trust Anyone Under 50.” These are Americans who were born after 1965. When this group reached their late teens, the age when youth usually start paying attention to socio/political issues, they found themselves in an America where political correctness, multiculturalism, diversity, social justice, sensitivity training, and other so-called “progressive” positions were already firmly entrenched. In the past, a disagreement with a political position was considered a “difference of opinion.” Today it is called “hate speech.”
Yeah, yeah. I know. I can hear it already, "The rest of the country isn't like California."
Really? Then how did that Obama guy get elected twice?
or Romanian Term limits.
Individual states can and should impose terms limits on all elected members from their state to Congress. But I imagine that no one wants to go first for obvious reasons.
I did not know California had term limits on US Congressional members. How did the Dems gain a monopoly because of those limits? Consistently running candidates that promise the moon against conservatives or Republicans that don’t do the same?
Unfortunately the Canadian Free Press has missed the real target.
I am both for and against term limits for Congressional Critters - aka Senators, Congressmen, and their supporting “professional staff”.
I firmly believe that the electorate must be able to elect whomever they want for as long as they want.
What I am against is the professional politician that only goes home to be re-elected.
I dream of a Constitutional Amendment that would restrict Congressional sessions to 25 weeks a year. For the remaining 27 weeks it would be a high crime for any Congress Critter to be found inside the Beltway. If the Congress Critters have to be accessible to the voters instead of the lobbyists for the bulk of the year things will change.
BTW if the Congress Critters can not get things done in their 25 weeks in session obviously the unfinished business wasn’t important enough to begin with.
My concept is based on the saying “Idle Hands are the Devil’s Playground.”
What I meant by “at the state level” is our Assembly, Senate and Executive offices.
I missed that. Kinda of like if you read the whole book, you find out that they get married at the end.
Got to break up the gang activity somehow.
What I am against is the professional politician that only goes home to be re-elected.
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With today’s communication technology the representatives and senators could easily
operate from a location within each of their districts or state. That way they would
be close to their constituents who could visit them and watch their daily activites, etc.
Basically the DC facilities, House/Senate, chambers could be shut down.
They gained the monopoly one election at a time. By offering the candy store and painting Republicans as mean-spirited Christians who hate women and homersexuals.
And Republicans not fighting back.
Spending your whole life on vacation in DC is a bit much
As I’ve posted earlier: Move the Capitol.
American needs to repeal the 17th amendment to the Constitution and make Senators accountable to the states they are supposed to represent.
A law that would help is being able to charge pols for fraud when they abandon their campaign promises.
I've always thought with today's technology and communications, DC is no longer needed. Send everyone home and let them work in their own states. Let them reside with their constituents.
I think this would make it harder for the lobbyists to get to them.
What do you think?
Wish they could, but they can't. See "U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton"
So it would take a constitutional amendment? The Constitution only specifies numbers and qualifications and terms of office but not how long office holders may serve.
With repeal of the 17A, all good things are possible. Absent repeal, our continued slide into misery is certain.
So I read the case and it appears term of office is a qualification. Did not know this. 5/4 decision
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