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To: alicewonders

have I seen a political party do a “great job” yet? The ‘94 Gingrich Republicans were supposed to enact the term limits that we all agree would have been great. They didn’t even try. There is no point of unilaterally disarming, although introducing effervescence as a concept might be beneficial over a decade or so. In the meantime, they’d get creamed every time out of the gate running virtual no names. It’s hard to get anybody to run on the Republican ticket for anything in many states.


28 posted on 07/19/2008 7:22:06 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3

Maybe the Republican Party is spent as a force.


29 posted on 07/19/2008 7:27:57 PM PDT by alicewonders (I'm a conservative, and I'm hated by the GOP & the Dems - I must be doing something right!)
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To: gusopol3
The ‘94 Gingrich Republicans were supposed to enact the term limits that we all agree would have been great.

Term limits would be a disaster to our freedom and liberty. You think it is hard trying to get a majority of 535 idiots to do the right thing?

Try getting tens of thousands of aides, staffers and lobbyists to do the right thing.

That is precisely what you would end up with if you got term limits. It takes years to get used to learn to wield power in DC, and those unelected power brokers would love to have a fresh crop of Representatives and Senators to run roughshod over.

If you think the elected elite are a problem in DC, wait till you give power to the unelected elite.

You don't like your Representative or Senator? Work to unelect them. There is your term limit.

50 posted on 07/19/2008 10:46:27 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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