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The only disadvantage that I could see is that the politicians who really are great wouldn't be able to stay there. But we would supposedly continue to elect more really great politicians.
The benefits are numerous. What are your thoughts?
And my plug: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/create-term-limits-congress/bm01vV2m sign the petition if you agree. Let's get Obama to submit an amendment. Or if he won't, let him explain why not. It's time to take the lobbyists out of Washington.
If this petition gets 150 signatures, it will go public. It needs 100,000 by 4/14/13. I'm an introvert. I don't know 150 people and I don't have facebook. If you believe in this cause, please sign it and share it.
If you don't believe in it, why not? Am I missing something?
no. outlaw gerrymandering nationwide instead. plug the census data into a computer, and let the software draw the districts. if we did this, districts would only change to reflect census data.
I think we do need term limits.
The overwhelming majority of Americans are dissatisfied with every single person in Washington, yet "we" continue to re-elect the same dim-bulb nitwits decade after decade after decade.
There's no need for career politicians and every reason to prevent just such a thing from happening.
I'm all for term limits.
The power to replace them lies with you.
if we see indications of corruption it is then up to us, the voters, to vote them out of officeIt's not about the argument of whether or not we can or should replace specific politicians. It's about the overwhelming power and corruption that could and does occur behind the curtains without term limits. Is the cost worth the freedom?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The only disadvantage that I could see is that the politicians who really are great wouldn't be able to stay there. But we would supposedly continue to elect more really great politicians.
The benefits are numerous. What are your thoughts?
And my plug: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/create-term-limits-congress/bm01vV2m sign the petition if you agree. Let's get Obama to submit an amendment. Or if he won't, let him explain why not. It's time to take the lobbyists out of Washington.
If this petition gets 150 signatures, it will go public. It needs 100,000 by 4/14/13. I'm an introvert. I don't know 150 people and I don't have facebook. If you believe in this cause, please sign it and share it.
If you don't believe in it, why not? Am I missing something?
It's not about the argument of whether or not we can or should replace specific politicians. It's about the overwhelming power and corruption that could and does occur behind the curtains without term limits. Is the cost worth the freedom?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
if we see indications of corruption it is then up to us, the voters, to vote them out of office
we do elect the politicians we deserve
The only disadvantage that I could see is that the politicians who really are great wouldn't be able to stay there. But we would supposedly continue to elect more really great politicians.
The benefits are numerous. What are your thoughts?
And my plug: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/create-term-limits-congress/bm01vV2m sign the petition if you agree. Let's get Obama to submit an amendment. Or if he won't, let him explain why not. It's time to take the lobbyists out of Washington.
If this petition gets 150 signatures, it will go public. It needs 100,000 by 4/14/13. I'm an introvert. I don't know 150 people and I don't have facebook. If you believe in this cause, please sign it and share it.
If you don't believe in it, why not? Am I missing something?
Tempting. Very tempting. But - no. The corrupt and the incompetent will be replaced by others just like them - but hungrier. And those rare individuals who manage to stay clean and speak their mind (Ron Paul is the obvious example; if you are a socialist, you would name Bernie Sanders...) - and get re-elected on the virtue of their demonstrated integrity (and scandalous celebrity of not marching in lockstep with their herds) - they would be gone...
if we see indications of corruption it is then up to us, the voters, to vote them out of office
we do elect the politicians we deserve
Term Limits are a dead issue thanks to the SCOTUS. We can go on all day about how necessary they are, or not, but the SCOTUS has said they won't be allowed.
The only disadvantage that I could see is that the politicians who really are great wouldn't be able to stay there. But we would supposedly continue to elect more really great politicians.
The benefits are numerous. What are your thoughts?
And my plug: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/create-term-limits-congress/bm01vV2m sign the petition if you agree. Let's get Obama to submit an amendment. Or if he won't, let him explain why not. It's time to take the lobbyists out of Washington.
If this petition gets 150 signatures, it will go public. It needs 100,000 by 4/14/13. I'm an introvert. I don't know 150 people and I don't have facebook. If you believe in this cause, please sign it and share it.
If you don't believe in it, why not? Am I missing something?
The only disadvantage that I could see is that the politicians who really are great wouldn't be able to stay there. But we would supposedly continue to elect more really great politicians.
The benefits are numerous. What are your thoughts?
And my plug: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/create-term-limits-congress/bm01vV2m sign the petition if you agree. Let's get Obama to submit an amendment. Or if he won't, let him explain why not. It's time to take the lobbyists out of Washington.
If this petition gets 150 signatures, it will go public. It needs 100,000 by 4/14/13. I'm an introvert. I don't know 150 people and I don't have facebook. If you believe in this cause, please sign it and share it.
If you don't believe in it, why not? Am I missing something?
It appears that these "benefits" are so numerous that you listed exactly none of them. You also listed not specific term limits, or even included the petition text. Disadvantges that come to mind; 1) lame duck representatives are very apt to represent nobody but themselves, 2) if your representative is doing a good job then they are effectively fired for doing just that, 3) incumbents have an actual record to judge while challengers merely offer promises and 4) too many morons vote based only on party affiliation so challengers (winning the primary) in solid red/blue districts still recieve no real opposition anyway.
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