Posted by
Sheila on Saturday, December 19, 2009 7:34:43 PM
We are living in the land of career politicians. No longer do we have citizen legislators. It is time to re-visit term limits, because as long as elected officials can go to Washington and stay there as long as Robert Byrd, a previous Ku Klux Klan Wizzard, you know the country is in trouble.
The problem of power hungry politicians will never go away as long as we have people who go to Washington to establish their retirement portfolio in the millions on the backs of the taxpayer.
When politicians become a separate class that is not living by the laws they pass for the rest of us, you know it's time for change.
I had an interesting conversation today with a couple of liberals at a golf club. One was a lawyer and the other a judge. They are leftist drones who live by the dem mantra. When I mentioned the problem that we have is career politicians, and the fact that we need term limits, the lawyer surprisingly had to agree. I was shocked! He even agreed we need to be able to buy health insurance across state lines, and said that would solve this entire healthcare issue. The judge had left by the time I brought up term limits, but I wonder if he would have agreed !
It was an amazing conversation. I didn't call them names, I simply approached every issue they brought up with common sense, and we left in agreement on two major issues.
Unfortunately it may be too late to ever get back to the real problems in the country and solve them, because the career politicians keep passing laws they don't have to live by, as is evident in this healthcare law they are about to pass.
While conservatives argue among themselves about having a perfect republican party, they are watching the democrats pass laws they exempt themselves from, which are life and death issues.
It's time to get back to basics, and revisit term limits. If it's constitutional for the president to be term limited it is constitutional for congress.