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.

mitchejw wrote:

I get what you’re saying but look at every single person they’ve hired to coach for a decade…they’ve hired cheap coaches who’ve never done the jobs they’re hired to do. They have no experience…

I’m cynical but i believe they do this because these people are cheap AND they are so far behind that they don’t think coaching matters in 2023…

Astonishing that anyone could make sense of hiring the people that they did and gave no care or thought to what would become of one of the youngest teams in the nfl…don’t they see that without the coaches the hundreds of millions they spend on the players is totally wasted?

Cheapness and inexpirence at HC isn't the Bears' problem.  Look at all these other non experienced HC that got hired on other teams.  GB coach:  no previous HC experience, only was an OC at the Rams and TEN,   Rams coach:  no HC experience.  Bengals guy:  no HC experience.  the MIA HC whose team just put 70 pts on the Broncos, again first time coach.

They've just consistently hired the wrong people.  I even looked at the previous candidates from the 2022 coaching search.  Majority were DC guys, some of them failed retreads.  The only offensive guys were the Bills OC (ended up getting the NYG job) and Doug Pederson.  And they weren't hiring Doug Pederson.

On the GM stuff/inexperience stuff you may have more of a point.  They chose to overpay LB on day one of free agency and chose to sign a OG with questionable practice habits and shitty pass blocking skills, traded for Claypool and he's disappointed.  Those are bad moves/losses to me.

The Bears need to just improve whatever fucking criteria or processes that go into hiring these guys.  At some point, they might be better off tossing a dart at a random board of names.  You can be cheap as an owner and succeed in the NFL.  The Bears are cheap and dumb.  That aint gonna work.  Either the owners gotta step up and start giving a shit about who they hire or just live with this cycle of crappy Bears football.