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OmahaBlueDog

(10,000 posts) Fri Jan 18, 2013, 10:09 PM Jan 2013

Would you favor congressional term limits? [View all]

Throw the bums out: 75 percent back Congress term limits Yahoo News

Sure, voters sent a majority of incumbent members of Congress back to Washington in November 2012. But a new Gallup poll finds that 75 percent of Americans support imposing term limits on lawmakers in D.C.

Twenty-one percent would vote against a law limiting the number of terms representatives and senators can serve.

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	I don't favor term limits.
	5 (71%)
	4 terms for Senators/12 terms for House members
	0 (0%)
	3 terms for Senators/9 terms for House members
	0 (0%)
	2 terms for Senators/6 terms for House members
	1 (14%)
	1 term in the Senate/3 terms for House members
	0 (0%)
	Other - and no, you can't just limit terms for Cantor, Foxx, Bachmann, & Boehner (nice try, though)
	1 (14%)
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Would you favor congressional term limits? [View all] OmahaBlueDog Jan 2013 OP

No. Here in California term limits on our state-level offices have created unintended consequences slackmaster Jan 2013 #1

They made an interesting mistake here in Nebraska OmahaBlueDog Jan 2013 #2

Word! Brother Buzz Jan 2013 #3

No, no, no, no. Ask Californians how well that is working here Hekate Jan 2013 #4

I hope everyone reads your post because that is exactly what happens. Luminous Animal Jan 2013 #8

We have term limits they are called elections dsc Jan 2013 #5

Louis Gohmert, for example, is completely immune to that form of term limit Stinky The Clown Jan 2013 #17

so what dsc Jan 2013 #18

It is a compromise. We are harmed more by the army of Gohmerts than we are helped by . . . . Stinky The Clown Jan 2013 #19

No - every two years the Congressperson can be removed. karynnj Jan 2013 #6

Only at the federal level where a career politician can do some real harm. Rex Jan 2013 #7

See my post #4 about California. Term limits are a lobbyist's wet dream Hekate Jan 2013 #9

Then we need to do away with seniority meaning everything. Rex Jan 2013 #11

So then you have to change the US Constitution. Try ALEC Hekate Jan 2013 #12

Nope. Rex Jan 2013 #13

Either get the politicians out of the money or the money out of politics. Stinky The Clown Jan 2013 #10

Right now, the longer they stay, the more invested they get on committees OmahaBlueDog Jan 2013 #14

Yes, I agree. Those are some of the more subtle aspects of the issue. Stinky The Clown Jan 2013 #16

75% of Americans support it. I won't stand in their way. nt Comrade_McKenzie Jan 2013 #15

Do we really want to trade... bobclark86 Jan 2013 #20

I don't favor term limits for Congress... ellisonz Jan 2013 #21

The term for house seats needs to be lengthened Morning Dew Jan 2013 #22