Not in favor of anything that puts restrictions or limitations on who I can vote for - outside of the limitations already in the Constitution (age, residency etc.)
And end electoral college?
LOL
Yes, if...
One term in office
Second term in prison.
Congress is slime.
Term limits-reluctantly yes (because the voters are so stupid)
Eliminate the Electoral College-No (most low information and some who think they are informed, have no clue as to the sound reasoning behind this)
yes—i would support term limits... but the power-hungry hypocrites would never pass it... not setting limits on the Congress is one thing our Founding Fathers—for whom i have the highest esteem—got wrong...
you have a poll and i have an opinion. Living here in NYC and having seen how Bloomberg circumvented term limits and oh just this once and only for him because hey the water won’t flow without him. Forgive me if i don’t trust term limits to actually work.
Hell YES!!
Term Limits:
One term in office, Two terms in Jail.
Unreal...
List of members of the United States Congress by longevity of service
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_by_longevity_of_service
Also, I think we could self-term-limit Congress if all Federal buildings in DC did not have air-conditioning like it was for the first 100+ years...
I doubt term-limits would work.
Term limits would just create a more entrenched class of behind-the-scenes DC careerists, whose stock-and-trade would be knowledge of the vast Federal bureaucracy (and corporations) in their area of expertise. They would become the “brains” behind a politician who could never become as expert in their limited time.
Politicians would cycle in and out, but these people would remain the same - indeed, they would become indispensable to new representatives who know little about how the Empire operates at the center.
As we saw with Obamacare, no politicians wrote that monstrosity. All, or most of it, was sitting there already prepared beforehand, created by long-time party and policy wonks and lobbying groups. Term limits would just give them more power.
I am in favor of term limits. I don’t feel any person has a right to be elected over and again. Let’s be honest here. Incumbents have unusually high chances of being re-elected because they have a political machine behind them. I realize that some will argue COL Allen West against this, but he’d have been easily re-elected had his first district not been redistricted...and it appears that some within the party did it on purpose.
Our founders did not envision career politicians. They envisioned the people having a representative government where anybody that was not a felon could run for office. They envisioned that people would serve and go back to their homes as citizens. We have a group that feels threatened and pulls out all the stops, regardless of how ugly it gets, to maintain their power. And this is why we need term limits. These people take more power away from us every time they are elected. Look how long it takes to get some of these people out? Some will never be voted out. (Pelosi, Boxer, Reid, Feinstein, et al) We need term limits. If we had a perfect society, or even a more polite one, we’d not need them so much. But those days are LONG past. We need to face that.
Term limits would rein in the “lion of the Senate” mentality, where we honor people for service who have done more to destroy the country, have NO MORALS, and win on their family name and the power they hold over a segment of the population. This MUST stop if we are to redeem our society.
NO!
There is a two term limit for the president now. It is not the federal governments business to say how a state chooses it’s representatives. If you want term limits in your state go for it, but leave the choices up to the other states. It gives the federal government more power. Is that what you want to do?
Six terms for a Representative, two terms for a Senator [or combination thereof - 3 in the House, 1 in the Senate]. Twelve years total each.
In order to pass, it would have to be by Constitutional Convention - you’re never going to get the votes from Congress to then send to the states.
If we restrict terms of elected officials then the real power in the government (state or federal) will be the entrenched bureaucrats to whom the newly elected officials must turn to in order to find out how to run the government. We must therefore also limit terms of the bureaucracy.
But term limits on either group miss the broader problem: government is just too big. It intrudes into too many areas of life that government is not suited by its very nature to deal with. Bureaucrats write far more regulations having the weight of law than Congress passes in the form of just laws. And Congress often passes a law that gives power to the bureaucrats to define even more law via regulations yet to be written. (hello ObamaCare).
Not term limits. move tax day to the last tuesday in October and a lot of this nonsense would sort itself out.
Robert Byrd, senator 1957-2010
Daniel Inouye, senator 1962-2012
Ted Kennedy, senator 1962-2009
Ted Stevens, senator 1967-2009
Joe Biden, senator 1973-2009
Patrick Leahy, senator 1975-present
Orrin Hatch, senator 1977-present
Thad Cochrane, senator 1978-present
John Dingell, representative 1955-present
John Conyers, representative 1965-present
Charles Rangel, representative 1973-present
Bill Young, representative 1973-present
Don Young, representative 1973-present
Yes, we need term limits. And yes I would support such an amendment. Equal terms for both House members and senators. Either twelve or eighteen years consecutive max.
Eliminate the Electoral college - No. Without it, the smaller states would have no voice - ever. It would be a mob rule. California and NYC would decide for the entire country. All the states in between would be used as their slaves.
Term limits of ONE term...that way; we don’t p*ss away any time on re-election while in office.
If they don’t fulfill the promises they made when elected, they don’t get another term. No nepotism & if convicted of a crime, NO PENSION.
Nope, it’ll never happen, but yes, I would support it as a means of limiting foolishness.