Congressional Term Limits
Congressional term limits need to be implemented in this era of utterly corrupt big government. The fact of no term limits for members of Congress is going a long way toward destroying our country by putting the mad Libs' dream leader--the career politician--into office. "When we send men and women to Congress to 'represent' us...we want them to understand that they represent us, the overwhelming number of Americans who live our daily lives in that private sector. Moreover, we want them to remember that it is to that private world that they must return, to live under the laws they have made as our representatives. That, in essence, is the message implicit in the growing call for term limits," write Ed Crane and Roger Pilon in their book 'The Politics and Law of Term Limits'.
The Liberals use no-limits on Congressmen to further their own maleficent ends. They need people who are utterly insulated from the rule of their own laws and indifferent to the real needs and desires of the very people whom they are supposed to be there to serve and protect. Congressional term limits would go a very long way toward shattering their dark, dreary dreams of unlimited impingement power. There was a reason why Rhode Island representative Founding Father Roger Sherman wrote, "Representatives ought to return home and mix with the people. By remaining at the seat of government, they would acquire the habits of the place, which might differ from those of their constituents."
What would Congressional term limits do? With them in place, we would see:
- Significantly higher turnover rates in both Houses.
- A sharp drop-off in the number of incumbents who seek re-election.
- A significant drop-off in the percentage of elections in which incumbents get re-elected.
- A decline in landslide victories and a decrease in the margins of victory for incumbents, which would keep those who win the office from getting swelled heads.
- An increase in the number of candidates who run for an office, increasing competition and decreasing the power of incumbent money to sway a campaign's outcome.
- A balancing of power between the term-limited (since 1951) Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch. Of these two parts of government, it has become increasingly clear that it is the Legislative Branch which is more out out of control--because it can be.
Congressional term limits are quite disingenuously opposed by the vast majority of Congress critters and, much more surprisingly (maybe), a large segment of Big Business. This latter development is due to the fact that Big Business has felt compelled by government to play the lobbying and special interest game--and has ignobly conceded to doing so. Again unsurprisingly, Big Labor also staunchly opposes Congressional term limits. These business interests have gotten so used to paying off certain "trusted" politicians, playing what economists call the "Baptists and Bootleggers" game, that they wouldn't know where to turn to for protection without them.
Yet, the fact is that soon enough, with Congressional term limits in place, business interests would not feel so much need for protection--for the anti-business laws that constantly get passed (most of the Big Business special interests come from heavily regulated industries) would be drastically reduced, and many of those which currently exist would likely be repealed. On the other hand, these business interests would have to go back to doing what they have forgotten about: competing in the free market place, instead of seeking to bind other people so that they don't have to fear stiff competition.
If we Conservatives are going to put the United States back into the state in which it belongs, we have to vigorously push for two-term limits on Senators and three-to-six-term limits on Congressmen (with three being preferred). So, join the Second Revolution today!
Congressional Term Limits