mitchejw wrote:

slashsfro wrote:

I'm equal opportunity in terms of term limits.  There should be an age limit or something.  You want to serve a long time in Congress.  Get in early.   

As far as McConnell goes, as long as he's still lucid and there and functioning it's fine if he keeps on serving.  He's probably more damaging than Trump but he's done all within the laws etc.  It's not his fault he's outmanuevered the Democrats.   

Did anyone mention the Menendez stuff where he got caught with 480k in his house.  NJ politicans are sleazy.  Water is wet.  They belong in a group with Chicago, Louisiana as sort of the areas/states where corruption seems to be prevalent for decades maybe centuries.

The problem with term limits in my opinion has always been that it takes responsibility away from the voter.

You wanna talk about victomhood? Voters who don’t trust themselves to the point that they need to create rules based on age is deflecting responsibility.

I don't buy this reasoning.

It's not easy getting incumbents out of office. They become entrenched in the system...and they unite with one another and fight to the death to keep each other in.

A simple vote alone cannot compete with that.

A good example this last election is that house race in Texas. Pelosi herself actually flew down to Texas to specifically rally and support a pro-life candidate...during an election the DNC pretended to have a conniption fit over the abortion issue. Better to risk having a pro-life incumbent than pro-choice new blood. Yes...a woman who screams from the highest mountain about a woman's right to choose backs incumbents against abortion.

These people are parasites....that need term limits.

I'm equal opportunity in terms of term limits.  There should be an age limit or something.  You want to serve a long time in Congress.  Get in early.   

As far as McConnell goes, as long as he's still lucid and there and functioning it's fine if he keeps on serving.  He's probably more damaging than Trump but he's done all within the laws etc.  It's not his fault he's outmanuevered the Democrats.   

Did anyone mention the Menendez stuff where he got caught with 480k in his house.  NJ politicans are sleazy.  Water is wet.  They belong in a group with Chicago, Louisiana as sort of the areas/states where corruption seems to be prevalent for decades maybe centuries.