Jo's Cafe

I’ve always believed in Term Limits in any governement. Power Corrupts.  Jeb Bush did it right – stepped down as governor when his term was done.  The president has a term limit – Two, four-year terms, if they are lucky.

Congress should be the same way – and yet, why hasn’t it happened?  Well maybe if it had, us in the republican base might not be sitting here wondering how much damage the liberal dimwits are going to do to this country before we get back control of one of the branches in Washington.

Andrew Cline has a great article in The American Spectator talking about just that - ”Finally Term Limited”

Somewhere along the road from revolution to “permanent majority,” Republican leaders abandoned the core theme that brought Republicans to power: disgust with Washington insider culture.

Republicans might have saved their majority by keeping a single signature promise from 1994. More than any other point in the Contract With America, the promise of term limits showed how serious these reformers were about changing the culture in Washington. Like the capital’s namesake, they were willing to walk away from power if the people entrusted them with it. Yet when the time came, they chose to stay put rather than step down.

Read the whole thing.