Posted on 03/06/2024 12:59:38 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has dismissed as “totally inappropriate” an idea being floated by Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and other GOP colleagues to place a term limit on his successor.
McConnell, who has served more than 17 years as Senate GOP leader, noted that colleagues have an opportunity every two years before the start of a new Congress to elect a new leader.
And he suggested it would put the Senate at a disadvantage to the House, where the Speaker does not have a term limit.
McConnell also pointed out that Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) tried to unseat him after the 2022 midterm election and lost 37-10.
“Well, we have term limits now. They’re called elections and I had a contest myself during my last election as leader,” he said, deploying the classic rebuttal to arguments for term limits.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I don’t like McConnel, and I don’t like “term limits” either; that’s what elections are for.
If I liked my elected representative and thought they had kept doing a good job, I’d not agree that they should be kicked out of office just because someone thought they “had been there too long”.
I say yes, make the claim, but let the voter decide.
Maybe THE one thing the Founding Fathers missed......of course, back then they fully expected that everyone would put country before self and not exploit their position for personal gain.
Change it from 6 years to 4. Why should senators be special?
The problem with elections is this: they have been bastardized.
Cornyn wants whatever his donors tell him to say he wants
C’mon
How about repeal of the 17th Amendment go back to what the Founding Fathers intended. Each senator speaks corporately for his state. Repealing the 17th restores a republican form of government. Today’s system just treats him as a long serving congresscritter-at-large by doing so it introduces the partisanship of the House into the Senate. The Founding Fathers system would introduce a tendency for a built-in cap in multiple Senate terms. Every state legislator & state grandee would see themselves in that chair. It might be modified by allowing the governor or any state legislator to introduce a bill of “no confidence” in the senator allowing a removal and a new appointee prior to the end of the 6-year term. Another small modification might be allowing the state legislature 30 days to appoint a senator failure to do so would mean the governor could appoint into serve for a year then the state legislature would have another opportunity to appoint.
Term limit bureaucrats and ‘staffers’ NOT elected officials.
Elections are term limits...
Don't like your Senator? Elect new legislators to your state houses.
-PJ
Cornyn knows the idea goes nowhere...he wouldn’t want it anyway...but by floating it, he looks to bolster conservative Bona fides. Dont be fooled...he is a unitary rino who wants to be leader even more now to vaccinate himself over last nights Paxton led message that texas is rino hunting. Like Linda Graham acting conservative every sixth year.
How about term limits for all of Congre$$?
I think all candidates over 70 should take and pass a cognitive test. Biden looks and sounds like a blithering idiot imo.
“And he suggested it would put the Senate at a disadvantage to the House, where the Speaker does not have a term limit”
Now you’re thinking! Term limits all around....
“GOP”-—” leaders”-—— Okay some one give me a hint cause I ain’t seein’ it.....🤔👍. Gotta be a joke here someplace.
But, bur, but what “IF” the voters are too stoopid?
Well...I do like TERM LIMITS we term limit the POTUS....about time we term limit them all.
Our country has gone DUMB!!
Of course he did.
That’s important but the most important aspect of it is it restores republicanism as a fundamental pillar of our government.
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