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.
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....
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.
I’ve been saying that for years, and it’s been on my tagline.
Very appropriate are the quotes from various people who have used this thought and variations of this phrase over the last two centuries (none are attributed to Jefferson, however). Here’s sampling:
John Philpot Curran in a speech upon the Right of Election (1790), published in Speeches on the late very interesting State trials (1808):
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
From http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/01/eternal-vigilance-is-price-of-liberty.html...
Speaking to members of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society [on January 28, 1852], [Wendell] Phillips said:
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten. The living sap of today outgrows the dead rind of yesterday. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either form human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people. Only by continued oversight can the democrat in office be prevented from hardening into a despot; only by unintermitted agitation can a people be sufficiently awake to principle not to let liberty be smothered in material prosperity.”
…in a biography of Major General James Jackson published in 1809, author Thomas Charlton used the same words, just in a different order. Charlton wrote that that one of the obligations of biographers of famous people is
“fastening upon the minds of the American people the belief, that ‘the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.’”
…an article in the May 2, 1833 edition of The Virginia Free Press and Farmers' Repository says:
“Some one has justly remarked, that ‘eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.’ Let the sentinels on the watch-tower sleep not, and slumber not.”
In an introduction to the 1965 radio version of his novel Brave New World, [Aldous] Huxley said:
“Eternal vigilance is not only the price of liberty; eternal vigilance is the price of human decency.”
The problem with term limits is that NOBODY would be on our side. If US Senators and HOR knew that they actually had to earn a living after their limited time in the DC fog, they’d spend every minute of it selling out, in order to prepare for their futures.
Limit the amount of damage politicians can do by limiting the amount of time they have to do it.
Allow the legislative branch to meet for only two weeks every quarter. During that two weeks, the legislators pay will be equal to the pay he would receive at his non-government job for the same time period.
Limit the amount of damage politicians can do by not allowing them to insulate themselves from their own actions.
Any law, rule, code, decree, regulation, treaty, benefit, or executive order that applies to citizens will apply equally to legislators.
Any law, rule, code, decree, regulation, treaty, benefit, or executive order that applies to legislators will apply equally to citizens.