I believe that if a President is term limited, so should House and Senate members be as well.

I worked out a plan one time that basically accounted for a politician and the total amount of time they were allowed to be in office. It was like 20-22 years depending on whether they ran for President.

Term limits would put an end to lobbyists. Who would pay for a Congressmen if they were only in office a finite period of time.

WE NEED TERM LIMITS.

Our Founding Fathers never intended for career politicians.
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1. Don’t reelect your Congressman or Senator.
2. Always vote, but only for the strongest challenger ,regardless of party .

If Congress has not passed a term limits bill by 2014, repeat this in 2016, 2018….

Our only intelligent choice is to NEVER REELECT anyone in Congress!

The only infallible, unstoppable, guaranteed way to get a truly new Congress, AND a new politics, is NEVER REELECT ANY INCUMBENT! DO IT EVERY ELECTION until term limits is ratified. In other words, don’t let anyone serve more than one term until Congress passes a term limits bill!

NEVER REELECT ANYONE IN CONGRESS. DO IT EVERY ELECTION! … until we ratify term limits.

Nelson Lee Walker of tenurecorrupts.com

Ultimately, there will be an up and down vote on the bill and it will pass. What Reid was trying toi do was a unanimous consent Senate trick. Bunnsing called him out on it because of his pulling of the bill.
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Palin 2012

FOXNews.com

Unemployment insurance and COBRA benefits will expire Sunday for millions of voters because the Senate was unable this week to pass a short-term extension, a failure that reflects partly the partisan gridlock that has stalled the Democratic legislative agenda and partly the Senate rules that allows one lawmaker to block legislation.

But the Senate will likely be able to renew them with a Tuesday vote. Democrats are expected to take up a broader bill next week, the second in their “jobs agenda” that will extend the benefits, among many other provisions – including popular tax extenders – for one year.

The bill is expected to pass by the end of next week.

The latest stalemate, however, produced a rare, late-night partisan floor brawl between two scrappy senators.

In the red corner is Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., whose decision not to seek re-election this year has made him a wildcard. He has blocked a $10 billion bill that extends the benefits for 30 days because he wants to lay out how the extension will be paid for, preferably with unallocated stimulus funds.

In the blue corner is Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., who, along with other Democrats told Bunning no way because the extension is an emergency and shouldn’t come with any offsets.

The battle lasted for hours Thursday when Durbin sought unanimous consent, a move that forced Bunning to object each time to uphold his filibuster.

“It is unthinkable, unforgivable that we would cut off unemployment insurance payments to these people, that we would cut off COBRA payments, which helps them to pay for their health insurance while they’re unemployed,” he said. “And yet, that’s what’s going to happen Sunday night. It’s because the senator from Kentucky has objected to extending unemployment insurance payments and COBRA health insurance payments for 30 days.”

Bunning decried the move and was joined by Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who accused Democrats of a “sneak attack.” Corker vowed to stay on the floor with Bunning all night.

Durbin said he was defending out-of-work Americans, that he would love to be home because he is “no spring chicken.”

Bunning told Durbin that he would not object if the senator agreed to adopt his or any amendment that would pay for the bill.

But Durbin said Bunning rejected a chance earlier in the week to offer that amendment for an up or down vote.

When Bunning tried to offer an amendment Thursday that would offset the spending, Durbin objected.

“The present level of debt is unsustainable,” Bunning said. “I have too many grandchildren that want to grow up in the same America that I grew up in,” he said.

In the end, it was a draw, although Bunning won the battle.

While Democrats have ganged up on Bunning for his actions, Republicans have blamed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for the benefits expiring. Reid had a chance to renew unemployment benefits with the first jobs bill that passed before he decided to dramatically scale back the proposal.

WTF???
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SM: The extension of the unemployment benefits was part of the bi-partisan jobs package that Harry Reid single handedly nixed last week. Instead he passed some ridiculous $15 billion bill.

http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/02/22/now-unions-liberals-are-attacking-dem-senator-harry-reids-jobs-bill-as-a-joke/

Both Republicans and Democrats were going to vote for the extension of unemployment insurance until Reid played this game. Obviously Reid does not want their to be bipartisanship. Now does he?

It is my understanding that Bunning wants the benefits to be paid for from stimulus $’s which is what the bill that Reid pulled would have done.

Heaven forbid we not just keep growing the deficit so that our children and grandchildren are saddled with debt. All of the unallocated $’s would have gone to extend unemployment for greater than one month.

But no, Harry Reid wanted there to be a reason to keep people at odds. Doe not sound like bipartisanship does it?

So in the end, ask yourself who really wants to work for the good of the people and who just wants to play self serving games. We cannot keep spending folks. This is insane.
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I do believe the HOUSE will fall and Republicans will take it over.

There is so much anger against Democrats and Obama brewing beneath the surface that there will be hell to pay in 2010.

I think just like we have see a record collapse in Obama, we shall see the same in record losses for Dems in the House.

The 2010 election is the real 2008 Presidential election after the American people wizened up to the Obama lies and the truth that was withheld by the MSM.

Had Obama been properly vetted by the MSM, he would have never been elected.

Obama is the most liberal President we have ever had and his administration is as well.

The American people have a funny way of teaching people a lesson that they will never soon forget when they feel they have been lied to.

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If Democrats and Obama are stupid and arrogant enough to really attempt reconciliation with the health care bill in the Senate, I think its possible that another couple Senate seats could fall like CA.

The refusal of Dems and this Administration to not listen to the Will of the People and put their political careers at risk is a kin to a suicide bomber.