Posted on 06/27/2013 8:03:20 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier
...“If government were a matter of will upon any side, [the constituents’], without question, ought to be superior,” Edmund Burke once said. “But government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination; and what sort of reason is that in which the determination precedes the discussion, in which one set of men deliberate and another decide, and where those who form the conclusion are…miles distant from those who hear the arguments?”
Burke further argued that “your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.” ...
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Term limits amendment with a mandatory retirement age.
No more guys drooling in their chairs in the Senate as their bones petrify and their brains turn to mush.
End gerrymandering, problem solved.
The practice of creating safe districts fills the House of Representatives with extremists on the Left and Right, who only face challenges within their party and therefore appeal to the wings rather than the center.
Create competitive House districts and you’ll get a centrist Congress that can actually pass meaningful legislation.
End gerrymandering, problem solved.
The practice of creating safe districts fills the House of Representatives with extremists on the Left and Right, who only face challenges within their party and therefore appeal to the wings rather than the center.
Create competitive House districts and you’ll get a centrist Congress that can actually pass meaningful legislation.
I detested everything the man stood for, but it was actually painful to watch Robert Byrd in his last few years in the Senate. Someone else had to be casting his votes for him cause he had checked-out long ago.
As far as I’m aware, the House of Representatives is constitutionally limited to 435 representatives, the states to two per state.
The thing about demographics and location is a real problem for the Democrats, especially with their tax policies forcing smart people to move away. This causes a shift in the representatives and where they represent.
The last thing we want is DC getting statehood, which I think is against the intent of the constitution, and never EVER allow Puerto Rico to become a state - EVER....
That’s John Dingell but have no fear he’s still quietly snoring in the thrown bequeathed to him by his father more than a half century ago.
The longer they stay, the more they are owned.
Acquisition costs are very high for new Congressment. Easier to keep the old ones bought.
No matter which way, America is now so devoid of men of character, it’ll be a rouse from the start.
In the colonial days, men kept a close watch on their new government, remembering the rule of the king they had abandoned. They didn’t allow the thought of being oppressed further, and the spoke up against it, and even went to war over it.
Now, the Laz-e-boy and the Golf Channel gets the attention and Washington has gone on a willy-hilly ride into oblivian.
Hey say that government should “work for us”, but we’ve been very bad “managers”, lax in productivity and discipline. The media and the lobbyists run America, not congress. Those who seek to take us down form groups, and find big money...used to influence congress critters.
They’re goals seem to be, get re-elected, and get rich, I.e. Harry Reid.
But what do we do? If our guy doesn’t suit us in every way, we sit home on Election Day and pout.
I didn’t like Romney much, but he would have been a step up from Obama, no matter how small the step. At least we could have protested without the race card being flung at us.
We’re not going to return to the morals and prosperity of the 50’s overnight. Incrementalism of the left is what got us here, and it’s going to take untiring incrementalism from the right to get us back.
There’s no magic potion, no one bill that will right the wrongs. The tea party is one of the only groups that seems to realize that.
We keep pinning our hopes on individuals - like Rubio - only to have our faces bashed in when he turns on us.
United we stand, divided we fall. The blacks, the liberals, and the media all know that, and they stick together to defeat us. Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity aren’t going to save us, they just tell us what to watch for...if sit on our collective asses and do nothing, then “nothing” is exactly what we’ll get.
The left is scared of the tea party, so maybe we should all renounce our membership in the GOP and tell them that unless they are endorsed by the TP, they’ll no get a single vote from us.
It’s got to start somewhere, and it’s past time for talking it to death.
/rant
First we have to elect a Congress that supports term limits. Yeah, right.
ahhh.....Hillsdale County....God’s Country!
I grew up in far southwestern corner of Jackson county and used to go roller skating in Hillsdale every Saturday as a teenager.
It is time for Americans to handle the issue themselves. Terms limits occur every time there is an election. VOTE them out.
Lived in Hillsdale about a hundred years ago.
I’ve been saying that for years, and it’s been on my tagline.
I grew up in Hanover but now I’m on the other side of the county near Brooklyn and Napoleon.
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