Posted on 10/19/2016 3:04:20 AM PDT by free_life
There is another major announcement I am going to make today as part of our pledge to drain the swamp in Washington. If I am elected President, I will push for a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.
Decades of failure in Washington, and decades of special interest dealing, must come to an end. We have to break the cycle of corruption, and we have to give new voices a chance to go into government service. The time for Congressional term limits has arrived.
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Why does the title say he can impose term limits? He didn’t say that.
Trump has been pretty clear the money that controls congress has to be ended....gravy train derailed.
3 max...more than that they forget the career they came from.
It is title from his site, https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/trump-pledges-to-drain-the-swamp
Sounds good but Presidents sign Legislation into law that Congress hands them. Unless someone in Congress brings the legislation to the floor for Consideration nothing happens and even then it must get through all sorts of roadblocks and such.
Nah One and done for each then go someplace else besides gub'ment.
Exactly. Which is what we are in.
The Trump team needs to change this headline immediately before it’s used to kill him in toniite’s debate.
The president can no more impose congressional term limits than I can.
All he can do is submit a bill to Congress, where of course it will die in committee, or use the bully pulpit to pressure COngress to propose a Constitutional amendment, or urge the states to do it.
Chris Wallace will use this headline as justification that Trump has no idea what the presiden’ts poweres are, which of course will play into the Dem line that he is unqualified for the position. Or worse, Hillary will make the point with that smug smirk of hers.
I couldn`t agree more. I tweeted this to his campaign during the primaries. He chose the right time to bring this issue up.
Let’s hope he stays focused on the awesomeness he can help bring us... and avoids being pulled off track!
I’m still wondering what the scene would be had he been able to remain focused on us in 1st debate.
In any event, I have to believe that the monster vote, a Bradley effect, and media collusion to skew polls all point to a trump win! The alternative is simply unthinkable.
I`m convinced Trump can make term limits happen. We desperately need them to ensure a decent chance of honest government after his eight years are up. Even if some kind of grandfather clause for current members is included in order to get them to pass it, it would still be worth it.
Look at the length and complexity of the bills, 3000 pages? How long has the Benghazi hearings been going on? Part of the trouble I'd suggest is that these Congresscritters use their importance of committee membership as reelection props. Their in no hurry to finish anything.
That's going to be tricky with the FBI and Justice Dept being proven as corrupt criminal organizations that side with those in government over the people.
I really wish that Trump had taken this stand much earlier and hit it a lot harder. It would have helped to cement his standing as an outsider change-agent.
Push for does not equal impose. Who wrote the headline? Trump is already being criticized for ignoring the constitution regarding term limits. Of course this criticism comes from the same people who have been fine with O’/s major use of executive orders.
Scorch the earth ahead of you, then salt it behind you. Let nothing grow henceforth.
Additionally, the unconstitutional power of the executive bureaucracy - the administrative state - needs to be curbed. Somehow, Congress must be placed back into its proper legislative role and the executive prevented from arrogating that power to itself. And Congress prevented from again abdicating this role. I would consider restoring the spoils system, bad as it was. At least the clog got flushed periodically.
there we have it, pearls of wisdom amongst all the emotional exhuberance
Not necessarily. Some of us have been opposed to unconstitutional EO’s by both Obama and Trump. (and Bush and Clinton for that matter). Admittedly not as many as I’d hoped.
Members of Congress should be limited to two terms - their current term and then their prison term, imo.
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