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If you are against the idea of term limits for the House and Senate, please state why.
I believe all terms limits are unconstitutional -- including the 22nd amendment. It should be repealed.
Term limits do two things: they take away the freedom of someone to run for office for another term, and they take away my freedom to vote for that candidate. What if the person has done an excellent job and the voters want to keep him or her? Term limits punishes excellence and promotes mediocrity.
I'm in favor of term limits. Most of these politicians promise and don't deliver and it will be better to set the term similar to what a President can have as a term!
That just shows it's easier to campaign and tell people what they want to hear than it is to actually govern once elected.
We definitely need term limits. And the argument that "the people" are free to simply not vote for them is a bogus one, inasmuch as presidents' terms are limited.
If the American people want term limits, we should have them.
The only thing that can fix Congress is their inability to run for office time and time again. Once comfortably ensconced, they start working for special interests. Forget their constituents.
Senators need to be limited to two terms, House Members to 3 or 4 terms. That’s plenty. Go home.
And,
Building a Wall,
Stopping illegal Immigration.
Reforming Taxes,
Bringing jobs back to America,
and Infrastructure Repair among a few, so far NADA. In fact I do not see him doing much of anything on those issues other than attacking Repubs in Congress for not doing his work and labeling everything Negative as Fake News.,
^^^^^^ Yeah I know this is from the 'older' part of this thread, but I found your knee jerk reaction above amusing. You thought pknopp was talking about Trump, so you reacted (without bothering to read Ponderosa's post that pknopp was replying to) as you did above. If you read pknopp's post again and read Ponderosa's post, you'll notice....the subject was John McCain, not Trump.
In many places we really don't. Any congressional district which swings left or right the incumbent has little resistance to being reelected. Same for senate races in non swing states.
Without term limits the power stays with the political parties. I don't see what good comes out of that.
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