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For some years now I have been beating a drum for Congressional Term Limits (see my website). This year, 2008, I have decided to use my ‘Common Sense’ and to use a different strategy, suggested by those who oppose term limits because, as they say,”We have term limits…they are called elections!”
Thus the following:
A REVOLUTION TO TAKE BACK THE US CONGRESS
by Nelson Lee Walker of tenurecorrupts.com
I am proposing that we create a popular, bloodless, political revolution in our country.
I believe that it is very necessary, very possible, and very doable.
The object of this revolution is the destruction of the professional political class which currently dominates and corrupts the US Congress.
I am convinced, as are many, many voters, that the bulk of our country’s political problems arises out of this ‘permanent’ Congressional political class, and their devotion to party power and to the financial special interests who keep them in power.
There’s a simple method that voters can use to create this revolution: That way is to…NEVER REELECT any Congressional incumbent, in either party, in either the House or the Senate, good guys or bad. Just NEVER REELECT any of them!
It can be done easily and at no cost. All it takes is a national email campaign by all voters, convincing their friends, and their friends, and their friends, to send out this NEVER REELECT message, frequently, thruout 2008, 2010, and 2012, and maybe longer…Just NEVER REELECT any incumbent Congressman or Senator.
If we succeed in doing this for two or three election cycles, we would sharply reduce the successful reelection rate for the careerist professional politicians, which currently stands at over 98% in the House. Similarly in the Senate.
When they find that they are no longer virtually guaranteed to be reelected forever
(like Kennedy and Dingle, both over 50 years each!!), they will drop out and get jobs elsewhere.
This would leave room for and encourage ‘citizen legislators’ to run for, and win office, using the Internet, without the help of special interests. It would break the back of those special interests who will have to work ten times harder to try to poison the huge batch of freshmen every cycle.
The resulting larger contingent of freshman Congresspeople would enable us, the voters, to call for term limits of “Six Years and Out”, and for publicly funded federal elections. Both of these changes would keep the professional politicians and their financial backers on the sidelines for a long, long time.
Let’s do it!
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm(Note to all readers: Please feel free to use this message, with or without attribution, for any purpose).