Should the 22nd Amendment be repealed?

[Modelworks]

Term limits for president are not going anywhere. They need to put limits on Congress. The corruption in Congress from all the 'good ol boy' dealings is killing America.While we are at it can we require an knowledge test for politicians ? Something about people being placed in positions of power without having to know one damn thing about the job they are doing just seems wrong.
"Want to be on the board for health care ?"
"SURE"
"I'm qualified too, my grandfather was a veterinarian!"

 

[exar333]

Maybe they will will repeal this in the president's next stimulus bill? Throw it in as a rider...

 

[JKing106]

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.

How so? Seriously.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Originally posted by: Craig234

Originally posted by: Possessed Freak
Term Limits do not solve anything. Any sitting President spends how much of his last year campaigning for re-election? Same for Congress, and ALL the way down to local levels. I would MUCH prefer a single term in any office so that they do the JOB without worrying about losing certain voters for re-election.

Yes, let's free them of any accountability for their campaign positions, and from any need to please the voters, so they're completely free to ignore the voters and help themselves.

Campaigning promises are ridiculous, they should do THE JOB, if that means pissing off the voters then so be it. If they really mess up there are always ways to oust the person.

 

[JKing106]

My only concern is with Supreme Court Justices only being nominated by the President. In my opinion, they should be nominated by their peers.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: ebaycj

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.

1 term, 6 years, with a 60% popular majority recall vote (providing accountability to the people).

Also, election day needs to be a national holiday.

now that is a great idea. :thumbsup:

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: 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.

Or have exceptions made to them via additional amendments, such as the flag-burning amendment (which thankfully didn't pass).

<simpsons>
Why can't we make a law against flag burning?
Because that law would be unconstitutional. But if we CHANGE the Constitution --
-- we could make all sorts of crazy laws!
Now you're catching on!

 

[Skitzer]

Originally posted by: 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.

This!

 

[Specop 007]

It should be expanded to cover all federal government elected positions IMO.

 

[Jaskalas]

Originally posted by: sandorski
I think Term Limits only seems to be a solution, but not the solution for the real underlying problem. The problem seems to be an Electorate that either isn't aware what their Politicians are doing or doesn't care what their politicians are doing. Running a Government takes a certain amount of Talent and Knowledge, by forcing a Turnover constantly you end up throwing out the Good with the Bad and give the Electorate no option to keep effective Politicians. With such an Electorate you'll still end up with crappy Politicians, except they'll always have a certain amount of Ineptitude because they'll always be trying to figure out how to get things done.

:thumbsup:

I completely agree.

 

[Carmen813]

I suppose the other option to term limits would be fully publicly funded campaigns...but that would lead to other problems.