Posted on 11/03/2014 4:12:18 AM PST by Jim Noble
By Tuesday night about 90 million Americans will have cast ballots in an election that’s almost certain to create greater partisan divisions, increase gridlock and render governance of our complex nation even more difficult. Ninety million sounds like a lot, but that means that less than 40 percent of the electorate will bother to vote...
The main impact of the midterm election in the modern era has been to weaken the president, the only government official (other than the powerless vice president) elected by the entire nation. Since the end of World War II, the president’s party has on average lost 25 seats in the House and about 4 in the Senate as a result of the midterms...
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“Those who cast the votes decide nothing.
Those who count the votes decide everything.”
What a steaming pile! Leave it to the left to try and change the rules when they lose the race.
Especially this one and this is a good thing.
The realities of the modern election cycle are that we spend almost two years selecting a president with a well-developed agenda, but then, less than two years after the inauguration, the midterm election cripples that same president’s ability to advance that agenda.
When that pResident is an America-hating, whitey-hating, vengeful, marxist, lunatic, the midterms are there to reign him back to reality.
There’s an obvious, simple fix, though. The government should, through a constitutional amendment, extend the term of House members to four years and adjust the term of senators to either four or eight years, so that all elected federal officials would be chosen during presidential election years. Doing so would relieve some (though, of course, not all) of the systemic gridlock afflicting the federal government and provide members of Congress with the ability to focus more time and energy on governance instead of electioneering.
Why not just declare them pResident and congresscritters for life ?
Certainly not in 2006, when George Bush was the president.
Neither did the NY Slimes have a problem when NY's commie Mayor (Di Blasio) was elected with 24% of NY's "electorate bother{ing} to vote."
I've been "retired" now for 3 1/2 years. I have much less free time now. Retirement done correctly is busy.
Even the guy who can’t think said something! ping
I thought about that while I was typing the words.
Yes lets do away with checks and balances. After all if electors realize they made a huge mistake at the last general election and want to rectify their mistake, they might stymie the president from making unconstitutional power grabs.
Democrats have also been complaining about gerrymandered districts. This always gets a big laugh from me since all one has to do is look at Massachusetts or any Northeast state and how the democrats gerrymandered out any chance for a Republican rep.
“We’re the only country with the practice”
Good
Cancel any ads or subscriptions to the NY Slimes.
Refuse to buy any mutual fund which owns NYT and sell any mutual fund that buys NYT.
The Slimes has been pro communist since the early days of communism in Russia.
They have merged their communism with Fascism to help their Fascist/Sunni President.
The Slimes is not even viable fish wrap anymore.
We all know these guys secretly envy the ChiComs because their system allows “the best and the brightest” to “get things done”.
Why don't we just appoint 0bama as King and get all the partisan rancor over with so He and His visionaries can get along with fundamentally changing America the way it needs to be changed?
This will be an editorial board opinion piece in the New York Times before 2016.
Childish tantrums at the NY Slimes.
Secretly, my ass.
Obama Cabinet Member Anita Dunn: Mao Tse Tung "Favorite Philosopher"; Truth is subjective
Imagine if the House of Representatives had been elected for 4 years in 2008 and what Obama, Reid and Pelosi could have done with absolute control of the government from 2008-2012 (no Tea Party led GOP capture of the House in 2010).
Mid-Terms are a useful check on tyranny.
Did the NY Slimes run this same editorial in 2006? Or was that election ‘different’ somehow?
bingo...
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