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Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:21 PM Original message |
There is a simple way to throw out all of the corrupt bastards: TERM LIMITS. |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. We have a means to limit terms now. Stop voting for "the name you know." |
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Bitwit1234 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Vote em out...that's never going to work because |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:35 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. I have never ever seen a ballot in a primary or a general election |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
23. With gerrymandered districts |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
2. congress would have to do it to themselves- FAT FUCKING CHANCE. |
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Leftist Agitator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Congress wouldn't have to do it themselves... |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:42 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. keep dreaming. |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
25. The Republicans term limited their committee chairpeople |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
3. There's an old fashioned way to enforce term limits, too. nt |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
4. G.Carlin - "Term limits ain't going to do any good; you're just going to end up with a brand new.... |
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BlueIdaho (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
24. I love G.Carlin - nt. |
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earthside (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
5. Sadly agree. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. What so they can become lobbyists faster? |
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Earth_First (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:42 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. +1 |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:32 PM Response to Original message |
7. needed: real campain finance reform |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:35 PM Response to Original message |
9. We have term limits. They're called elections. The real problem is campaign finance nt |
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GoCubsGo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
27. Exactly. |
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comrade snarky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
10. Constitutional convention? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
11. no, no and fuck no. why do people post this stupid suggestion day |
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NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:43 PM Response to Original message |
14. We have term limits now, people just wont exercise them |
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wryter2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
15. No, thanks |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
17. btw, there's NOTHING simple about amending the Constitution. Really. |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:56 PM Response to Reply #17 |
33. Agreed. n/t |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
18. Oregon has term limits, and they have a very harmful side effect: |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:08 PM Response to Original message |
19. And we throw out the good ones (Bernie & Dennis to start with) right |
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onenote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
20. of the four different people who would have occupied teddy's seat |
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11 Bravo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:19 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Teddy came to mind the instant I read the OP. |
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Yupster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:25 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. But how much good could Teddy have done if he |
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Spike89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:20 PM Response to Original message |
22. Counter productive idea |
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tritsofme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
29. See U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
30. The real power behind DC isn't in Congress, it rests with the people who tell Congress how to vote |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
31. I've always been for Congressional term limits. |
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Laelth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-18-09 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
32. They'll just be puppets of the executive branch that way. |
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