[right-wing agnostic]

The only way I see Congressional term limits being implemented is if they excluded all current members of Congress. Just as Harry Truman, who was president when the 22nd Amendment was proposed by Congress, was excluded from the Amendment's provisions. But the members of Congress are all in it together and won't allow their colleagues' power to be limited. And implementing term limits would certainly limit Congress's power.

FYI Section 1 of the 22nd Amendment includes this provision: "But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term." The 22nd Amendment was ratified by Congress on March 21, 1947 and it was declared in effect on February 27, 1951./rwa

[Right Brother]

The term limit should be ONE term. 6 years. Across the board. President, Senate, House. No worries about who’s butt needs kissing for a second term. Oh, and after you serve your 6 yr. term? No lobbying for 10 years.

[Political Junkie Too]

I don't support term limits. I do support repealing the 17th amendment.

It's odd to see the same people who want to keep the right to vote for Senators also want term limits on them. It's the old "stop me before I kill again" argument.

Either keep the right to vote for someone for the Senate for as long as you want to keep sending them back, or eliminate the right to vote for Senators altogether and let the state legislature select the Senator. Then you vote for the legislature that you want.

But don't demand the right to vote for your Senator, but only let me do it once.

Presidential term limits are a post-17th amendment phenomenon. I wonder why we never had a 3rd term president until Roosevelt? Was it because the Senate no longer represented the states, and the states couldn't influence the federal government like they did just 20 years earlier?

House Representatives are too numerous to care, and their districts are too small to limit whom the locals wish to send to Congress. However, with the rise of the influence of national parties due to the need to raise campaign cash for 33 Senate elections every two years, there is a party trickle-down of money to the House by party members in the Senate. If you eliminate Senate elections, you dry up a major source of campaign funds that would naturally flow to House races, too.

Repeal the 17th amendment, and a natural term limit will be restored across all of the federal government.

-PJ

[Jack Hydrazine]

Put it as a ballot measures at the state level.

[556x45]

Term limits are for a formerly free people who are happy in their chains. They were too lazy and apathetic to become involved and looked the other way when evil men took over their country.