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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States have imposed their own limits or their own representatives and they were found to be unconstitutional.
(I would also add "stupid" -- if you limit your own state while the others do what they want, you will always have the junior members of the governing body.)
I wish he would have said this from the beginning. I literally yelled “YES” when he said he would push for term limits.
‘Sounds great, but the only way to impose these limits is through a Constitutional Amendment that needs to go through Congress itself.’
Easy [but painful] way around that — grandfather current congress critters.
Trump won’t like it, but this is an option to keep the concept alive when he meets resistance.
‘I wish he would have said this from the beginning. I literally yelled “YES” when he said he would push for term limits.’
Remember when Trump said, “The shackles are off” ... ?
This is it. He wanted congressional support, but Paul Ryan [bleeped] the pooch.
Go Trump Go!
Trump’s courage is revolutionary — literally.
A prediction made at the start of this year keeps unfolding: it’s a revolution.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3381137/posts
And BTW, this is the last chance for a peaceful revolution.
What we really need to do is rescind the 17th. amendment once and for all... that in it self would fix a lot of the problems....
The senators think they work for the federal government instead of the people of the state they represent....
I know that. But his website says "impose," as an obviously official statement of the campaign. I know that a staffer wrote that, but it will be an unforced error. All they need to do is change that word on the website.
Need to look at judges too. Can something be done about lifetime appointments for them?
Asolutely!
Mark Levin has supreme court term limits in ‘Liberty Amendments’.
I’ve given a lot of thought to a better appointment system of judges as well [competive nomination with a prolonged period of mandatory debates], but it won’t be popular when Trump is first elected.
Arg ... that idiot’s spelling.
AB-solutely!
Competitive nominations.
Need coffee and a break.
FRegards ....
Not just foreign gov’ts but Big Pharma too.
This will resonate with the people. It really will.
‘But his website says “impose,” as an obviously official statement of the campaign.’
Good. The media might cover it then: “Trump plans to IMPOSE term limits on congress.”
“Trump Unconstitutionally plans to Oust Congress Members”
Then we get attention on the issue, and Turmp can discuss the amendment, etc. A winning issue for him.
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Near the end of the campaign Trump should brag about this strategy — deliberate ‘mistakes’ just to get the media discussing issues they would otherwise ignore.
Their heads would explode.
The headline is kind of misleading, but I can live with that.
He also didn’t say a bunch of other things in the few sentences he provided as an elevator speech.
Your expectations are crazed for the limited context he is providing.
I don’t see that “strategy” winning over any new voters, which is what’s required now.
With federal jobs, yes. Like working at the post office.
Republican Presidents gave jobs to Republicans, democrat Presidents gave jobs to democrats.
Then they enacted civil service “reform” and now all these federal workers are union democrats, no matter who the President is.
I say go back to the spoils system, it’s less corrupt than the current system of hahahahaha “merit” hiring.
And YES term limiting Congressional staffers also (if you are term limiting members of Congress) makes sense to me, otherwise you could have shadow government of veteran staffers pulling the strings of wet-behind the ears Congressman.
On term limits in general, it hasn’t helped California at all. Changing out Republicans might be helpful but a democrat is a democrat, they are all the same. I’s sure love to see IL House Speaker Mike Madigan forced to retire though, aside from 2 years of GOP control, he has been Speaker since before I was born.
Oh and FBI Directors and all other executive department Presidential appointees serve at the pleasure of the President, period, as they should.
When Lincoln died as his poorly chosen rat Vice President Andrew Johnson took over, he soon started governing as any rat President would. Congress passed, over his veto, the Tenure of Office Act, seeking to stop him from firing Lincoln’s cabinet members without Senate approval, specifically Secretary of War Edwin Stanton who was impeding Johnson’s agenda vis-a-vis use of he US Military. Johnson tried to can Stanton anyway, and it was under this pretext (violating the act) that he was impeached.
The act was repealed in 1887. In 1926 the Supreme Court found a similar law unconstitutional, an act requiring Senate approval for firing a postmaster without Senate approval, the court specifically mentioned the Tenure of Office Act and deemed that it was unconstitutional as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers_v._United_States
So legally speaking, Johnson’s impeachment couldn’t be supported, but I still would have voted to get rid of him because he was awful.
They should be more careful. The title doesn’t reflect the actual words or meaning.
“Two term limits on HOR and senators”
I’m all for that, but let’s change the lengths of Senate and House terms to four years, with elections to be held at the midway point of presidential terms in office.
If that change is made, no congressional rep can hold office longer than eight years.
Offsetting their elections from presidential elections, also creates a necessary friction between the Legislative and Executive branches. It would tend to keep one party from seizing control of both of those branches during the same presidential cycle.
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