Posted on 08/19/2016 6:37:58 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
For many establishment congressmen of both parties, being elected isn’t a chance to make a difference in the political life of America. It’s a sinecure that allows them to become fat off of special interest money and speaking fees.
Americans of all stripes are frustrated with this attitude, which is part of the reason why anti-establishment Donald Trump got the Republican nomination.
Now, Trump has made a huge move to end congressional sinecures and the politicos who occupy them. According to Associated Press, Trump told an audience in North Carolina that he would look into term limits for Congress if he were elected president.
Trump made the remarks Thursday afternoon while speaking before a group of local law enforcement officers in the swing state. A questioner asked the Republican nominee about it and said he wanted to “get these bums out.”
Trump gave him plenty to look forward to. He told the audience member that, “(w)e’re going to take a very serious look” at establishing term limits.
While it would take a constitutional amendment to accomplish, make no mistake — establishing term limits would arguably be the biggest accomplishment of any president since World War II.
Part of the mess we’re in as a country — especially in terms of debt, deficit and political pusillanimity — has to do with establishment politicians who hang around Washington for half a century or more.
One rarely (if ever) does this because they’re fighting for their constituents. They’re addicted to power and all that comes with it. This power, unfortunately, is often wielded at our expense, particularly when it comes to government spending.
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Presidents who have dabbled in the amendatory process have done so behind the scenes. Lincoln actually engaged in bribery to procure the necessary congressional supermajorities to get the 13th Amendment past Congress and out to the states for ratification.
Trump could work behind the scenes if he so wished.
Which is why it will never happen.
Everywhere term limits have been implemented, the net result was a rapid move leftward.
I am convinced that is why you support them.
Everything you post seems very leftish.
Legislating from the executive branch.
These lords and ladies of legislation, use US like surfs to pay off their mega donors. We cannot get more LEFT than we already are under Republican leadership. YOU cannot name ONE thing the Republicans have stopped we the people from having to fund in the abominations name.
Ya better get ready for some big changes slick.
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Almost every hip shot has given the MSM an opening to weaken Trump.
The tiniest bit of inaccuracy is a foot in the door for the MSM.
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Term limits will erode the strength of the few conservatives we have.
That is how it has played out in the state legislatures.
Term limits are “progressive” in their outcome.
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The president has a role in the legislative process because the Constitution grants him sign-or-veto power over legislation. It's customary for a president to get involved in the rough-and-tumble of the legislative process.
But Article V gives the president no role in the amendatory process. Within the federal government, that role belongs exclusively to Congress. Congress tends to get prickly about its prerogatives. A president who openly gets involved in the amendatory process via the bully pulpit would find himself dealing with an outraged Congress, and both parties would join in the outrage.
Fortunately it would never get that far. If President Trump suggested inserting himself into the amendatory process, the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader would sit down and counsel him thusly.
Mr. President, Congress won't brook your open interference in the amendatory process. There is a time to lead from in front and a time to lead from behind. You need to lead from behind, and let people on your side, both inside and outside Congress, lead from in front. If anyone asks your opinion on the proposed amendment, just say, "It's a congressional matter, and I'm staying out of it." That kind of diplomacy will get you the supermajorities you need."
If I read your second paragraph correctly, you are suggesting blackmail. That is also doable, but it also involves risks. That is something that has to be done out of sight and not by the president himself, lest it blow up in the president's face and lead to an impeachment situation. Generations later, some enterprising author would go to the Trump Presidential Library and come up with the secret history of how Trump's team got an amendment proposal got past a reluctant Congress.
I'd go with the bully pulpit used judiciously. Newt would be a great advisor on how to play that. The blackmail side of the equation is something I'd save for a last resort.
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You don’t understand anything. That has been evident in your every post for quite some time.
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No it would require legislation to do lawfully. You want Trump to be Obama?
Like #180?
Trumps voice and massive coast to coast influence in the White house would come with a fully operational and equipped television station. No? He would have ready access to nationally televised daily White House briefing that can be broadcasted nationally to the American people. No?
Now ad in Trump having total access to the entire file cabinet, the data, intel, backgrounds, financials, donors, investigations and entire history on the D.C. disciples of deceit.☺
You're a glaring fraud and you're going to lose.
People are wising up to the Media propaganda. It is going to bite them in the a— and has already started. The “inaccuracy” of the MSM is outrageous.
You're confusing blackmail with truth.
Truth sounds like hate to those who hate truth.
Possibly, or perhaps one of those so-called “superior” types.
Unfortunately their egos outweigh their brains.
What you’re dealing with here are a couple of insider Cruz holdouts. A real pathetic group at best.
If the material in this thread is true, the truth may set us free, but it will destroy us in the process.
I learned as a child, to recognize when I was wrong.... I have spent my life recognizing my 'wrong', beliefs... It is called taking personal individual responsibility... One of the standards of a 'pure' conservative. I am repulsed by these that have bastardized the idea of 'conservatism'... Bunch of spineless mindless liberals. VAT tax Cruz is a bastard.
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