Posted on 02/29/2020 6:18:53 AM PST by USA Conservative
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share0
Trump has voiced support for congressional term limits. During the 2016 presidential campaign that he would push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress.
After he became President in 2018 he tweeted: I recently had a terrific meeting with a bipartisan group of freshman lawmakers who feel very strongly in favor of Congressional term limits. I gave them my full support and endorsement for their efforts.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/991028027785138177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E991028027785138177&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fvideo-president-trump-suggests-the-senate-should-pass-term-limits-for-his-presidency-of-25-years%2F
Last night there was an interesting moment when he suggested that maybe the Senate should limit his presidency on 25 years so that he can keep making America great.
Video below: https://twitter.com/conservativma/status/1233577752705556480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1233577752705556480&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fvideo-president-trump-suggests-the-senate-should-pass-term-limits-for-his-presidency-of-25-years%2F Trump could evoke a powerful precedent: Ronald Reagan.
During his second term in 1987, Reagan stated that he would start a “movement” to repeal the 22nd amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which limits presidents to two terms in office — a movement Trump could try to revive.
The Democrats, on the other hand, think that a single-term presidency is the best option.
Under the Articles of Confederation, Americans limited delegates to Congress to no more than “three years in any term of six years”; the president was not to serve “more than one year in any term of three years.” Yet the U.S. Constitution did not explicitly mandate either presidential or congressional term limits. Some wanted George Washington to be president for life, but he was too burned out to pursue a third term. It was Thomas Jefferson who established the two-term custom.
The option of a single-term presidency has been considered throughout U.S. history. In 1912, the Democratic Party platform formally called for a single presidential term; the following year, the Senate approved a constitutional amendment to that effect. Former President Woodrow Wilson then had the proposed amendment discreetly killed when Congress went out of session.
After Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wartime bids for a third and fourth term had been futilely opposed by presidential candidates Wendell Wilkie and Thomas E. Dewey, the Senate soundly defeated a proposal to limit all federal officials to a single six-year term in 1947. The Senate then adopted the 22nd amendment, which was ratified by the states in 1951. In 1979, Jimmy Carter argued in favor of a single-term presidency on the grounds that no matter what he did, people would question whether it was a selfish “campaign ploy” or “genuinely done in the best interest of our country.”
Do you agree with the proposal of President Trump or you support the Dems idea of one-term President?
Please share this article wherever you can. It is the only way we can work around their censorship and ensure people receive news about issues that Democrats and the mainstream media suppress.
I think if you left it to the general public and some Constitutional add-on....both House and Senate members should be limited. Maybe even the Supreme Court members should be limited to ten years, or mandatory retirement at age 70.
Judges are lifetime for a reason....There’s no “bribe” for a future job. That they’re political....we know absolutely that the girls are totally under the thumb of political liberals.
Term limits suck. Whatever you THINK they’ll do, here’s what they actually do: Shift power from the people you elect to the staff that serve the office.
The faces go on a freight train from one office to the next, but behind the scenes, their office staff run everything.
Need examples? Look at the recent mockery of the impeachment process. Or look at California.
I would love to see the Dems' reaction to that. President Trump is the trolling master.
I pretty much agree with you. But I’d bump that mandatory retirement age to 80. After all, Donald Trump is 73.
The nice thing about 80 is that you’re no longer thinking about getting a cushy second job somewhere. So you’re a bit more difficult to buy off. At 80, you’re more interested in things other than work.
Don’t think you’d be saying that if it was Obama in the White House.
I am not a grammarian but this headline reminded me of “Throw the cow over the fence some hay.”
House and Senate should be term limited to one term. More time gets more corruption. A senator who is going to be in office for 12 years is worth much more to outside interests and they will pay out much more money to purchase him. ONE TERM.
What about a bribe for continued life? Antonin Scalia might have something to say about that.
House and Senate should be term limited to one term. More time gets more corruption.
The corruption adapts because that is the nature of man. The corruption would happen faster and with even less fore thought.
The system does work as our founders designed it, don’t mess with they system.
:)
I’ve heard that argument before. It makes sense, but term limits are a reset. It also weeds out the career politico.
Hard to get entrenched when you are only around for 8 years. You need to deal with the issues at hand instead of kicking the can down the road.
It keeps deep state on their back feet, because they need to keep retraining and rebranding candidates. That costs resources and money.
If somebody is a safe district forever, there is no need to divert resources.
Introduction of term limits would cause a disruption that they may never be able to recover from. As long as the pressure is on.
He was joking. It was his prelude to saying he needed the next five years to get everything in place.
He was joking and trolling the idiots in the fake news and their clients in Congress.
I’ll go out on a limb and say some congresspeople aren’t bad. Term limit could be “can’t go two consecutive terms in off” gives them time to go back to the real world and if they take a cushy job (bribe) their chances of re-election would drop significantly.
We need asymmetrical warfare against the left and cause them to bleed everywhere. Term limits is a logistics nightmare for them.
I’d sure like a piece of crap like Lindsey Graham to be turfed by term limits.
Incumbents have too much power when a lowlife like that pig gets reelected in one of the reddist states in the US.
I watched the Rally in Charleston last night.
Clearly, the President was joking.
Now the DNCMedia will have something new to fall onto their fainting coaches about, but it really was a joke.
John Garamendi (D) congressman
1 term in the California state assembly (1974)
4 terms in the California state senate (then term limits kicked in) (1976)
A term as California's Insurance Commissioner (1991)
US Deputy Sec of Interior (1995)
Insurance commissioner again (2003)
Lt Gov California (2007)
US Congressman (2009)
Tell me again how term limits stop career politicians?
>>Term limits suck. Whatever you THINK they’ll do, here’s what they actually do: Shift power from the people you elect to the staff that serve the office.
Worth saying again. The permanent bureaucracy in Washington is clearly a much bigger problem than semi-permanent Congressmen and Senators.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.