There is ONLY ONE infallible way to eliminate careeerism in Congress, and that is to do
a VOTER-IMPOSED term limit on every seat in Congress. We must NEVER REELECT any Congressman or Senator, NEVER!

Whether he is a good guy, or a bum. Whether he has served only one term or ten. Whether he is a Republican, Democrat, moderate, Indie, Greenie, or 3rd party. Simply NEVER REELECT ANYONE IN CONGRESS. Vote only for challengers.

If we do this for 3 or 4 election cycles, and reduce the reelection rates of incumbents from the current 95% down to 60%, they will absolutely get the message, and may give us a bill for a Congressional Term Limits Amendment. If they don’t, we only need to keep it up and NEVER REELECT, which gives us TERM LIMITS by default! Which is a “voter-imposed term limit”.

This is the only unstoppable, infallible way to make term limits happen! The American voter must IMPOSE TERM LIMITS on Congress, by NEVER REELECTING anyone in Congress.

In other words, don’t let anyone serve more than one term. That’s the only way to teach
them that the voter is their boss! and that Congress as a career WILL NOT BE TOLERATED!.

Let’s wise up, and start voting for our country! NEVER REELECT ANYONE IN CONGRESS!

Forget about who wins the White House. It is in the Congress where the changes need to be made. The 95% reelection rate in Congress has created a corrupt, arrogant class of professional politicians who are only interested in being reelected forever, regardless of the country’s problems.

One of the reasons our government is permanently dominated by that class of professional politicians who make a career of getting reelected forever, is that WE, THE VOTERS, are all obsessed with party politics. When has party politics done us any good? Look at the mess we are in!

Half of us are straight-ticket Democrats, the other half are straight-ticket Republicans, and the few ‘Independents’ in between are uselessly spread out among Libertarians, Greens, so-called “moderates”, 3rd parties, etc, and it has been this way for years and years.

Let’s wise up, and start voting for our country! NEVER REELECT ANYONE IN CONGRESS!

Nelson Lee Walker of tenurecorrupts.com , Saratoga, CA

It’s only OK to vote on unread bills that are trivial. Trivial like the Patriot Act, which GOP congressthugs voted for before the ink was dry. Apparently they didn’t read the Patriot Act II, the Iraq War Resolution, the Homeland Security Bill and the Bankruptcy Bill, etc. either. But every Democrat really ought to read every bill s/he votes on. If they don’t have time to read the bill, they don’t have time to vote. Right On!

I’d bet that very few GOP congressthugs read much of any bill handed to them by their Leaders. Not even the sponsors. They wouldn’t dare. After all, most GOP legislation is written on K Street. Can’t insult the corporations by implying their bill isn’t perfect. And Tom and Dick and Newt were not men you crossed.

As for the Democrats, maybe they picked up their lazy habit over 1995-2006, when Tom and Dick and Newt saw to it that only Republicans would have any input on important legislation, by cutting intra-party deals behind closed doors and then voting en bloc. Why would Democrats bother reading the bill? Better to go home and watch the Simpsons.

Even the GOP backbenchers might have lost the habit of reading the bill when they learned that handpicked congressional aides (a/k/a fall guys) were inserting language into the bills in the middle of the night after the House-Senate conferees had settled on what they naively thought was the final version. They wouldn’t have read the bill even if they had read it. So what’s the point?

And who would take the time to read the bill if he or she knew that the President would declare and exercise a fictitious right to ignore any inconvenient parts of the bill altogether?

I agree, the Democrats ain’t perfect. It would be much better if they were liberals. But they’re only playing by the rules they’ve learned over the past fifteen years. Lump it.

I still can’t figure out how John McCain won the Republican nomination. How on earth can slimey people like Pelosi, Reid and Obama get elected to any kind of office, much less a federal one?

Yep, something seems broke. I doubt if the people who hold office now will make the slightest attempt to fix it. In their view, some people were meant to ride and others were meant to be ridden. They’ll continue to bleed us until we drop.

There is some consolation in the fact that the pin head college students who voted for Obama will be the ones ultimately stuck with paying all the bills. Serves them right and if they end up living in straw huts, all the better because it will be “green”.

It takes a certain kind of person to deserve, earn and fight for freedom. There are very few of that type left anymore. As much as I would like to see term limits, tossing all the bums out or even a revolution…it ain’t gonna happen. We have become a nation of sheeple.

Ballot measure outlawing abortion lost in SD 2004 *and* 2008.

SD is a red state. Church going white folks. McCain won 2:1.

Look it up. Weep.

You can do the rest of your homework yourself. Not my job. The original poster is correct. You won’t tell him you’re sorry, though. You lack the class.