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Agnosticsherbet

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13. I do not support term limits.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Thu Dec 27, 2012, 12:57 AM

Dec 2012

I didn't support them back when Gingrich made his false promise to enact term limits. They have proven a major annoyance in California, where people just move to different job. The big problem is that there is no institutional memory, and good people when we get them are shit canned with the bad.

No job I know of operates by getting rid of people that knows what they are doing and replacing them with amateurs, that when they do work at a j ob long enough to understand it, must be fired and replaced by more amateurs.

Government is not a job for amateurs.

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Do you feel differently about "term limits" today than you did a year ago? [View all] kentuck Dec 2012 OP

That's about the only way we can rid ourselves of the teabaggers doc03 Dec 2012 #1

But the problem with gerrymandered districts is that we would only get new, greener & more BigDemVoter Dec 2012 #4

True n/t doc03 Dec 2012 #6

term limits do nothing to stop lobbying, consulting jobs, and board of directorships liberal_at_heart Dec 2012 #2

I'm ambivalent. Standard worry is it empowers K street Recursion Dec 2012 #3

Always thought it was a dumb idea, and still do jberryhill Dec 2012 #5

Exactly loyalsister Dec 2012 #12

With gerrymandering elections are not realistic as term limits bluestateguy Dec 2012 #7

No loyalsister Dec 2012 #8

How about mandatory retirement at some point n/t doc03 Dec 2012 #9

They do. It's called death. RC Dec 2012 #14

If you replace a moron with another moron, Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #10

Look at California and that is your answer nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #11

I do not support term limits. Agnosticsherbet Dec 2012 #13

We've gotten rid of some great people with term limits. Tom Foley, D-WA, former House Speaker, pnwmom Dec 2012 #15

Always was against them, still am. Changing the election system and rules of conduct Egalitarian Thug Dec 2012 #16

only if there are also term limits for the fucking lobbyists and backroom hacks who actually run DC. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #17