Anyone else think that Congress and the President are the irresponsible ones for taking the weekend off instead of working to stop the 'sequester' (story here: http://goo.gl/D9TW0) which Obama thought was such a good idea when he suggested it but now feels that it was all a heinous GOP plot and is racist?
I think it's really time to start term limits. President for only one term, Senate for two terms, Representative for six terms with a maximum of 12 years combined in congress. What do you all think? While we're at it let's limit campaigns to no more than 6 months including all primaries. We have got to start getting these rich, power-crazed people out of politics. Once someone has served in federal office, including appointments to leadership positions, that individual should be under a lifetime ban from all lobbying efforts or work of any kind.
As for lawmaking, I propose Heinlein's idea be adopted. No law should be allowed to pass unless it has a 2/3 majority support. Any law should be struck down with only 1/3 minority of the vote. The reason being that any law that is not seen as an improvement by 1/3 probably isn't good enough anyway. I'd go a step further and not allow any riders to any bill. If a bill isn't strong enough on it's own to pass then it has no right being a law. That would certainly stop the pork-barrel politicos in their tracks.
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself…” ~ Samuel Clemens
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