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- From: Karl.R.Kistler@dartmouth.edu (Karl R. Kistler)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Term limits (was Re: Patsy Schroeder on Term Limits)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.153441.25692@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:34:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.011903.10806@pmafire.inel.gov>
- cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook) writes:
-
- > In article <6996@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil> rovero@maui.oc.nps.navy.mil (Josh Rovero) writes:
- > >More people voted FOR term limits in each of the 14 states which had
- > >it on the ballot than voted for Bill Clinton.
- > >
- > >Hint: It wasn't just conservatives who supported these measures.
- >
- > So? How many of those people who voted for term limits also voted to
- > return their current congresscritter to office?
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- The idea behind term limits is to break up the careerist mentality and
- seniority system in congress. Why should Jesse Helms or Teddy Kennedy
- have so much more power than my rep? I didn't vote for them. A
- Congressman who gets elected with a 'throw the bums out' mandate finds
- himself powerless as a freshman rep. By the time he has substantial
- power, (20 yrs or so) he has lost touch and become a bum himself.
- People traditionally hate congress but think that their own rep is good
- because he brings home the bacon. A vote for term limits is really a
- vote for limiting the terms of everyone else's Congressman.
- Unfortunately, you can't really do that without a national referendum
- which Congress has a vested interest in preventing.
- States with term limits will drive the national term limits movement as
- the
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