We need term limits for Congress. 12 years lifetime total both houses included. And make them barred from ever taking a lobbying job paid or otherwise.
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Brine, > > Okay, I misunderstood your comment. > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Brian Bednarek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I was alluding to the fact that the term limits were put in because FDR >> would have won as many times as he ran, he died ... the term limits kinda >> bit the GOP in the ass when President Reagan was so popular that if allowed >> would most likely have won a third term!!! >> >> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> There is a term limit for Presidents..... >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Brian Bednarek <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> They only gripe when they are not in the office ... why are there term >>>> limits for Presidents??? >>>> >>>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> *Conservatives Fight Against Excessive Presidential Power * >>>>> >>>>> Posted 2 hours ago >>>>> <http://godfatherpolitics.com/27408/conservatives-fight-against-excessive-presidential-power/> >>>>> by Onan Coca <http://godfatherpolitics.com/author/onan/> >>>>> >>>>> Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) is one of a handful of young conservatives >>>>> who are leading the fight to protect the Constitution. These young >>>>> Congressmen, with names like Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee >>>>> (R-UT), Justin Amash (R-MI), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Ted Yoho (R-FL), Matt >>>>> Salmon (R-AZ) are standing up to the entrenched establishment of both >>>>> parties and demanding a return to our constitutional core values. >>>>> >>>>> In a recent speech before the Senate, Sasse began what will be a >>>>> series of different arguments demanding that Congress fight back against >>>>> the unlawful misuse of Executive Power being demonstrated by President >>>>> Obama in recent years. >>>>> >>>>> It’s a powerful speech that brilliantly underscores our need for >>>>> better leadership in Congress and a return to Constitutional principles in >>>>> the Republican Party. >>>>> >>>>> *The problem of a weak Congress and executive growth should be bad >>>>> news to all of us and, more importantly, to every constituent who cast >>>>> their votes for us under the impression that Congress made decisions— not >>>>> suggestions. I think the weakness of the Congress is not just undesirable, >>>>> but is actually a dangerous thing for America.* >>>>> >>>>> Excerpts of the Senator’s remarks >>>>> <http://www.sasse.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=F92AC9BC-330D-44E9-9731-9B4283D20CF9> >>>>> : >>>>> *"Imagine President Trump has been propelled into the White House... >>>>> He signs an executive order to turn the Peace Corps into stone masons and >>>>> build a wall. He shutters the Department of Education and, by executive >>>>> order, turns the Department of the Interior into the classiest oil company >>>>> the world has ever known."* >>>>> >>>>> *"So what happens next?... After having raged against a supposedly >>>>> lawless President [would Republicans] suddenly find that they are actually >>>>> okay with a strongman President, so long as he’s wearing the same color >>>>> jersey that they are? He may be a lawless sonuvagun but, some would say, >>>>> he’s our lawless sonuvagun. Would the ends justify the means?"* >>>>> >>>>> *"... the problem of a weak Congress and executive growth should be >>>>> bad news to all of us but, more importantly, to every constituent who cast >>>>> their votes for us under the impression that Congress makes decisions— not >>>>> just suggestions."* >>>>> >>>>> *"I think the weakness of the Congress is not just undesirable, but is >>>>> actually a dangerous thing for America... I don’t think this because I am >>>>> a >>>>> Republican and the current occupant of the White House is a Democrat. In >>>>> fact, I think we need to have this debate now precisely because we don’t >>>>> know who is going to control the White House next."* >>>>> >>>>> *"I think it, rather, because I have taken an oath of office to the >>>>> Constitution; and I’ll still hold this same view when a Republican >>>>> president next tries to reach beyond his or her constitutional powers."* >>>>> >>>>> *"In this series of addresses on the growth of the administrative >>>>> state and on the unbalanced nature of executive branch and legislative >>>>> branch relations, my goal is not primarily to advocate. 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