Posted on 12/13/2024 12:57:17 PM PST by conservative98
New photos of ageing RINO Mitch McConnell being carted around in a wheelchair have become the symbol for the need for term limits.
McConnell was caught being pushed around in the wheelchair by a member of his staff after falling at the GOP luncheon on Tuesday.
The photo has promoted calls for McConnell’s resignation and term limits.
Here’s the photo:
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Many on social media are now demanding Mitch retire.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailyfetched.com ...
agree mcconnel is way. passed point he should have not run or to step down.
disagree with term limits.
what IS needed is Citizens to learn and understand, and use their role in stopping people in their district or state from running if they think there is a problem with them.
Sometimes simplest is best. I’d put the test as part of the welcome to Congress and have a committee create questions and have each year’s questions randomly chosen in rotation.
The physical/mental status exam is part of intake like joining any company. There are too many congress critters just to use one doctor so doctors from the Navy medical clinic, one floor below Congress, “which stands by, on-call and ready to provide Congress with some of the country’s best and most efficient government-run health care.”
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/congress-health-care-clinic/story?id=8706655
The Congress has the Constitutional right to decide fitness of its members not some clinic or panel of doctors. If Congressional committees were formed that took the advice of a panel to decide fitness it soon would be as nonpartisan and as effective as the ethics committees. It would simply be a cudgel for a majority to flail a minority.
Oh, and on second thought...
I'm amused by the thinking that people choosing for themselves others whom they think best represents themselves is a "problem."
-PJ
I think we must agree to disagree.
The life expectancy of the American male in 1776 was ~35 years. Term limits likely weren’t a contingency they imagined.
I must confess that the 27th amendment is one of the zillion things to which I’ve never given any thought.
What do you think about it?
Then Beshear will choose the RINO-iest of the RINOs offered.
I only wish voters were that wise with state legislatures. The Maryland legislature’s first appointment will be . . . Senator Martin O’Malley!
Well...then I guess Kentucky gets stuck with a very junior Senator. If they want any kind of future, they may have to toe a Republican line. Whoever it is will have about zero juice, whereas The Turtle had plenty.
i’m shocked that mitch wasn’t carried in a palanquin ...
I've been thinking about the issue for 40 years, and I always wind up agreeing with exactly what you wrote.
So you are in favor of repealing the 22nd Amendment?
I think 2 terms is fine for a president; but I’m just one person, and the entire country decides this stuff. (I’d personally like them to be 5 year terms, though.)
But I still want you to tell me your opinion regarding the 27th amendment.
So you believe the above, but are fine with term limits for President? See the intellectual contradiction there?
I doubt they ever thought human life span would extend beyond a person’s 70’s or 80’s at the time the constitution was written.
The office of President is something the entire country votes upon, considering many overriding issues when they do.
Senators and Representatives ultimately answer to smaller and unique jurisdictions.
(You still haven’t answered my question about the 27th; and until you do, this conversation is finished.)
There is no 22nd amendment contradiction because the President does not represent the people. The President is the executive of the federation of states. The people are represented by the House of Representatives where there are no term limits.
The President is elected by Electors to the Electoral College. Electors are selected by whatever method the legislatures of the states choose, and the people choose their state legislators.
Insert my boilerplate comments here...
It was the role of the governors of the several states to lead the people of their states.
It was the role of the federal Executive to manage the relationships between the states, to be the voice of the nation in foreign relations with other countries, and to be the commander-in-chief of the military during armed conflicts.
The President's constituents were the governors, not the people. The states were the sovereign governments closest to the people. That's why the Senate was designed to be appointed by their respective state legislatures: 1) to confirm the President's nominations for executive branch offices and judicial picks, and 2) to ratify treaties that the President negotiated with foreign governments.
It was the several states, through the Senate, that were supposed to "lead" the President, not the other way around. This is why Article IV Section 4 says "and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened)..." The states were expected to communicate to their Senators to convey to the President what the states were going to do. They were not asking the President for permission, they were informing the President of their intended actions.
That's why I believe that in a representative government the people have the right to choose whomever they want for how long they want to be represented by them.
-PJ
Me, too. It may take time for the people to really embrace the power they have to construct the "government of the people, by the people, for the people" that they want.
-PJ
This is why I don’t like old people so much..they don’t know when they’re in the way and making things worse...I say that as a 71 yro.God help me to stay vibrant and useful but 5o kn9w when 5o back off.
Congress had a chance a few yrs ago to quash the insider trading but alas they are selfserving.
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