Should the 22nd Amendment be repealed?

[her209]

This guy thinks it should.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=hj111-5

It definitely should not be repealed regardless of how popular a President is.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Been a bill every few years for the past several decades, never goes anywhere.

 

[OCGuy]

No, and it doesnt stand a chance.

 

[PokerGuy]

It wouldn't surprise me if our resident Chavistas would want to take steps to keep our Dear Leader at the helm for life.....

 

[spidey07]

I'm pretty sure you can't touch the Bill of Rights?

-edit-
crap, I thought you said 2nd

 

[BoomerD]

Nope. I was against it when it was proposed for Ronnie Rayguns, I am opposed to it now.

 

[Genx87]

If this douche had any sense of public duty he would introduce a bill to limit senators to 2 terms and house reps to 6.

 

[RyanPaulShaffer]

No, and in addition, we need an amendment to limit the terms of senators and representatives.

 

[Moonbeam]

Yes. It was not fair that George Bush couldn't run for a third term. It is absurd that an artificial stupidity the founding fathers did not suggest as law, should in our day prevent the talents of an exceptionally great President like him from being utilized for more than 8 years. Why in the hell should the will of the people be blocked this way. It should have been declared unconstitutional. How about you can only take a shit once a week. Just plain stupid.

"Oh oH, hold me back, Martha, I might vote for some guy who wants to be dictator.

 

[Genx87]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Yes. It was not fair that George Bush couldn't run for a third term. It is absurd that an artificial stupidity the founding fathers did not suggest as law, should in our day prevent the talents of an exceptionally great President like him from being utilized for more than 8 years. Why in the hell should the will of the people be blocked this way. It should have been declared unconstitutional. How about you can only take a shit once a week. Just plain stupid.

"Oh oH, hold me back, Martha, I might vote for some guy who wants to be dictator.

It passed the amendment process which means this is what the people want. If the people want to revert back they can use the same process to repeal the 22nd.

 

[Mursilis]

Originally posted by: spidey07
I'm pretty sure you can't touch the Bill of Rights?

I'm pretty sure you can. Any of the Amendments (including the first 10) can be repealed via the amendment process.

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Yes. It was not fair that George Bush couldn't run for a third term. It is absurd that an artificial stupidity the founding fathers did not suggest as law, should in our day prevent the talents of an exceptionally great President like him from being utilized for more than 8 years. Why in the hell should the will of the people be blocked this way. It should have been declared unconstitutional. How about you can only take a shit once a week. Just plain stupid.

"Oh oH, hold me back, Martha, I might vote for some guy who wants to be dictator.

It passed the amendment process which means this is what the people want. If the people want to revert back they can use the same process to repeal the 22nd.

Are you kidding. What person who hates himself would ever trust himself not to vote for a third term President. What you call the will of the people I call callow fear.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Yes. It was not fair that George Bush couldn't run for a third term. It is absurd that an artificial stupidity the founding fathers did not suggest as law, should in our day prevent the talents of an exceptionally great President like him from being utilized for more than 8 years. Why in the hell should the will of the people be blocked this way. It should have been declared unconstitutional. How about you can only take a shit once a week. Just plain stupid.

"Oh oH, hold me back, Martha, I might vote for some guy who wants to be dictator.

It passed the amendment process which means this is what the people want. If the people want to revert back they can use the same process to repeal the 22nd.

Are you kidding. What person who hates himself would ever trust himself not to vote for a third term President. What you call the will of the people I call callow fear.

We all knew this was coming down to self-hate. :laugh:

 

[Jaskalas]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Yes. It was not fair that George Bush couldn't run for a third term.

This is the crux of the argument right there.

I oppose term limits because it encourages too much focus on the other party and not enough looking inwards towards your own problems. If the GOP had to put up with the prospect of a third term of GWB, maybe they would have reformed in a healthy way and began to oppose the policies of the past eight years.

Instead, they were able to completely escape self examination by offering up a new face without any contest from the old face. The change was entirely shallow and therefore meaningless.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I think politicians should be limited to 1 term in all positions.
People maybe wouldn't worry so damn much about re-election and instead they could focus on their jobs.

 

[fskimospy]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
I think politicians should be limited to 1 term in all positions.
People maybe wouldn't worry so damn much about re-election and instead they could focus on their jobs.

This would also have the side effect of making them completely unaccountable to the voters.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Yes. It was not fair that George Bush couldn't run for a third term. It is absurd that an artificial stupidity the founding fathers did not suggest as law, should in our day prevent the talents of an exceptionally great President like him from being utilized for more than 8 years. Why in the hell should the will of the people be blocked this way. It should have been declared unconstitutional. How about you can only take a shit once a week. Just plain stupid.

"Oh oH, hold me back, Martha, I might vote for some guy who wants to be dictator.

I seriously hope this is sarcasm. If not go move to Venezuala or North Korea. Where the dictator is voted in every election cycle and wins by a landslide. Once you have that type of power in place you will win every election until someone with enough common sence is allowed into your inner circle and fixes the problem.

 

[n yusef]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Yes. It was not fair that George Bush couldn't run for a third term. It is absurd that an artificial stupidity the founding fathers did not suggest as law, should in our day prevent the talents of an exceptionally great President like him from being utilized for more than 8 years. Why in the hell should the will of the people be blocked this way. It should have been declared unconstitutional. How about you can only take a shit once a week. Just plain stupid.

"Oh oH, hold me back, Martha, I might vote for some guy who wants to be dictator.

I seriously hope this is sarcasm. If not go move to Venezuala or North Korea. Where the dictator is voted in every election cycle and wins by a landslide. Once you have that type of power in place you will win every election until someone with enough common sence is allowed into your inner circle and fixes the problem.

The problem you describe stems more from electoral fraud and the one-party-state than a lack of term limits.

 

[Lemon law]

Never mind the fact that GWB could not run and win as dogcatcher in any third term after he so screwed it up, but no, cults of personality always jump the shark, and I would vote nyet to any repeal of the 22'nd amendment.

 

[TheSkinsFan]

Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer
No, and in addition, we need an amendment to limit the terms of senators, judges, and representatives.

This (fixed).

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: eskimospy

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
I think politicians should be limited to 1 term in all positions.
People maybe wouldn't worry so damn much about re-election and instead they could focus on their jobs.

This would also have the side effect of making them completely unaccountable to the voters.

No less than any lame duck currently.

 

[MovingTarget]

Reasonable term limits are an essential safeguard in a democratic society. They help prevent one person or party from gaining too much power via cult of personality. That leads to tyranny.

 

[Moonbeam]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: Moonbeam

Originally posted by: Genx87

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Yes. It was not fair that George Bush couldn't run for a third term. It is absurd that an artificial stupidity the founding fathers did not suggest as law, should in our day prevent the talents of an exceptionally great President like him from being utilized for more than 8 years. Why in the hell should the will of the people be blocked this way. It should have been declared unconstitutional. How about you can only take a shit once a week. Just plain stupid.

"Oh oH, hold me back, Martha, I might vote for some guy who wants to be dictator.

It passed the amendment process which means this is what the people want. If the people want to revert back they can use the same process to repeal the 22nd.

Are you kidding. What person who hates himself would ever trust himself not to vote for a third term President. What you call the will of the people I call callow fear.

We all knew this was coming down to self-hate. :laugh:

Everything comes down to self-hate because self-hate is the hidden, that is hidden from you, motivation that drives almost everything. There are two parties. One, theoretically, is as capable of producing a fantastic President who is good for the country as the other, but both parties vote for term limits to make sure the other party never gets to have 3 terms. Only self-haters feel so worthless as to know it's the other party that will have all the great 3 or more term Presidents so both vote against themselves in favor of screwing the other party. Self-hate is a form of idiocy and it makes people blind and assholes. And in the process we all lose. Of course, because you hate yourself, the idea that we could have a President worth more than two terms is an impossibility. You are too worthless for that to happen. The person you should be laughing at is yourself. You have met the enemy and he's yourself.

 

[Carmen813]

Personally I feel limits also need to be imposed on Senators and Congressman. 18 years for Senators, 10 years for Congressman.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer
No, and in addition, we need an amendment to limit the terms of senators and representatives.

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