The DumAsCrap Party Of NO. We had a term limit amendment vote in the House in 1995....where 83% of Republicans voted for term limits and 81% of DumAsCraps voted NO.
So, you get a super majority and can't keep your members in line and what to blame Democrats for not enacting YOUR Contract on America?
Always forgetting to tell the rest of the story.
Bubba Clinton could likely have pushed some of his party and gotten us those few extra votes we needed to pass it, but Bubba was more interested in
Monica's Oval Orifice.
Yes, sure. Bill Clinton should have pushed his people to support Newt Gingrich and the Republicans Contract on America when they had a majority in the House and the Senate. The Republicans did just enough to say they did something. They didn't want it, couldn't live with it and let it die.
There was more discussion from that Republican failed 1995 bill:
Term limits would result in undesirable transfers of power to unelected bureaucrats and lobbyists
Under term limits, congressional staffers and corporate and
foreign lobbyists would play a far more significant role.
Inexperienced Members would also be susceptible to the
manipulation and influence of the more experienced Executive
Branch. As the League of Women Voters has testified:
Term limits would weaken the legislative branch of
government--and strengthen an already powerful
Presidency, upsetting the constitutional balance of
powers. Congress must be able to form its own judgments
on national issues, to come to consensus independently
of the executive branch's policies, if necessary. A
Congress of amateurs, however, would by its very nature
be more pliable and deferential--and the institution
would be robbed of its historic role of restraining the
power of the Executive, who controls the entire federal
bureaucracy. As a result, the branch of government
closest to the people would become a less effective
advocate for its constituents.15
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Former Constitution Subcommittee Chair Don Edwards has written
that term limits ``would establish a Congress of lame ducks, rich
people who could afford to spend a few years away from their life's
work, corporation executives sent by their employers for business
purposes, and men and women with a single passionately held goal.''
Letter to New York Times
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\11\ Id. at 146 (statement of Becky Cain, President, League of
Women Voters of the United States).
A term-limited environment is also more likely to
discourage ordinary Americans from running for Congress, since
most individuals are less likely to jeopardize their careers to
run for elective office for only a few terms.12 As
political scientist Morris Fiorina has observed, ``[a]mateur
political settings advantage the independently wealthy,
professionals with private practices, independent business
people, and others with similar financial and career
flexibility.'' 13 Similarly, Syracuse University Professor
Linda Fowler has concluded that patterns of recruitment and
****** retirements under term limits will increase the
influence of special interests in the legislature.14
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\10\ Thomas E. Mann, ``Congressional Term Limits: A Bad Idea Whose
time Should Never Come'', The Politics of Law and Term Limits, Cato
Institute, 1994, cited in, Term Limits for Members of the U.S. House
and Senate, Hearings Before the Subcomm. on the Constitution of the
Comm. on the Judiciary, 104th Cong., 1st Sess. 119-120 (1995)
[hereinafter, 1995 House Judiciary Hearings].
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As Judicial Committee Chairman Hyde (Republican) so eloquently pointed out
during last Congress' floor debate:
t is a little amusing to see the stickers that have
been worn by so many of my colleagues. It says ``term
limits, yes.'' It does not say ``term limits now.'' * *
* I am [also] remind of the famous prayer of Saint
Augustine who said, ``Dear God, make me pure, but not
now.'' 7
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Term limits provide an excuse for failure to act on campaign finance
reform
Not only are term limits themselves a dangerous proposal,
they offer the opponents of real and meaningful campaign
finance reform an easy excuse for inaction. Fred Werthheimer,
President of Common Cause, identified this fundamental
disconnect:
We recognize that there is widespread popular support
for term limits and that it stems in part from the view
that Members of Congress have become remote from
average citizens, dependent on and obligated to special
interests and their political money and locked into
office by a campaign finance system that provides
extraordinary and unfair financial advantages for
incumbents over their challengers. We believe that the
way to address these underlying problems, however, is
through fundamental political reform that curbs the
undue influence of campaign contributions over
government decisions, creates the opportunity for
challengers to run competitive campaigns against
incumbents and makes Members of Congress accountable to
their constituents, not to monied interests.20
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