Gene's Footnotes: The case for virtual term limits

The dictator is at work again and the best our legislators can do is write a letter, see below. It is time to take out just about every sitting legislator. There may be some worth keeping, but no more than one more time.

Even if jerks are elected, that is fine, the message will be given and you can throw out the jerks next time. Our big mistake has been for voting for the lesser of perceived evils which only gives more power to intellectual and moral cyphers.

Just toss them. Just keep tossing out those seeking permanence; if you like someone, keep him or her for one more term. Then, out, regardless of party. Eventually, the parties will catch on and find real people, not lords and ladies of the realm.

It really is not hard being in government, just look at who we have in N.Y. Murphy, Gillibrand, Schumer. These are lightweights with no center, which predetermines they cannot cannot have an opinion up or down, left or right.

The only guy doing something, Patterson, is being tossed to bring in Cuomo, who directed the Fannie and Freddie collapse. The son-of-the-hack who presided over the collapse of the economy will save New York's budget! I am at a loss to find an analogy for this absurdity. Perhaps, lets add gasoline to the fire. The ensuing explosion may put out the fire.

Being told that voting for a small party candidate is a wasted vote is a lie. Is it a waste of your vote to empower a thief because he wears your colors. This Blood vs. Crypts game has got to stop

It is not a waste to announce you are fed up with mediocrity and am voting for an ideology. When elections are in doubt because of this philosophy, the major parties will select better candidates.

New York had previously been tempered because it had strong liberal and conservative parties. Ideology mattered, then. (Back when liberal didn't mean Marxist.) A statewide candidate had to be careful about matters important to both liberals and conservatives. Now, you have parties with no soul just going through the motions and installing drones.

I could pick a good ten people who could run the nation, who understand numbers, management, the Constitution, and technology. Of course, they would never be interested in getting involved in our state of personal destruction - this is the victory of democracy over republicanism.

Who are these people who do run things? People who never had real jobs, were tossed from college for cheating, who hang out in public bathrooms or have a gay brothel in the house. Ted Kennedy mocks Bork's academic stature! Arrogance is a related to security.

Morons attacked Roberts' astounding legal mind, then tout Kagan's invisible legal career because they erroneously say she was the first Hispanic on the court? (To be fair, the Supreme Court did reverse one of her published decisions.) Toyota is attacked by Michigan representatives who flaunt error? Obama thinks we should make the Constitution more positive! A gaggle of these people say we can save our economy by going deeper into debt. They think extending unemployment insurance, keeping people of the unemployment statistics, means the jobless rate is good.

Our leaders are dangerous, ensconced simpletons. This will not improve by picking the best of the worst. The operative concept has to be - two terms and out. Yes, even representatives. Trust me, these people don't have any special skills worth saving, nor would a good person involved in a real life want to stay in Washington.

A revolution results when there is such a degree of anger that the people just throw everything over and establish a new regime. If you wait too long, this revolution has to be against guns.

Clever regimes promote the idea that revolution is somehow bad to do that - think of all the experience lost!

Keeping the bums around sounds reasonable, but such a logic doesn't apply to government, it merely protects the mediocre and establishes a ruling class where parties are a facade. The greatness of our history is that America was unique in hemming in government, knowing its true black nature.

Today, the power structure tires us with its insipid and mediocre candidates; people just give up. Our schools dumb us down.

Jefferson advocated a periodic revolution to defend individual rights. As a student, I thought this was a silly notion and was a Hamilton fan - no more. Flush the toilet bowl every ten years and shut down the central bank. We still have the tools to recreate out future, but not if we sleep and let the power structure build a castle, as they want to do with "immigration' amnesty, see letter below.

Nothing bad will happen if we toss out our representatives. Our national security can't possibly be worse than now. Our economy is only weakened by our government, it gets in the way. The financial aspects of the government are being run by Goldman Sachs.

In 2004 and 2005 Bush and McCain were screaming about the danger in Fannie Mae, the GOP presented plans to deal with the problem, and Barney Frank blathered on that there was no financial problem at all. This buffoon remains, Fannie Mae remains and its debt grows. Stupid is as stupid does.

Without the Fed and Treasury screwing things up, gee, we will have to pay cash for our stuff and think about quality. Prices won't be inflated by cheap credit. Banks would be rock solid. Of course, on the down side, Wall Street will have to go back to advising people on stocks and bonds instead of selling "so much blue sky" - or carbon credits. I wonder if we will see packaged, carbon-cap overage swaps. No, of course we will.

It is time for a virtual revolution. There are precious few good guys, so when in doubt, throw them out. This makes decisions much easier, don't vote for a lifer no matter the part. Cauterize the bleeding. A Congress of Citizens is better than, as the book puts it, a Parliament of Whores.

Below is the GOP's response to an illegal plan to offer blanket immunity, which is almost the same as amnesty. The movement on the left is to create many millions of new poorly educated voters who will fall for racist and socialist rants. Essentially, we facing the end game. What does the opposition say?

Dear President Obama:
We understand that there’s a push for your Administration to develop a plan to unilaterally extend either deferred action or parole to millions of illegal aliens in the United States. We understand that the Administration may include aliens who have willfully overstayed their visas or filed for benefits knowing that they will not be eligible for a status for years to come. We understand that deferred action and parole are discretionary actions reserved for individual cases that present unusual, emergent or humanitarian circumstances. Deferred action and parole were not intended to be used to confer a status or offer protection to large groups of illegal aliens, even if the agency claims that they look at each case on a “case-by-case” basis.
While we agree our immigration laws need to be fixed, we are deeply concerned about the potential expansion of deferred action or parole for a large illegal alien population. While deferred action and parole are Executive Branch authorities, they should not be used to circumvent Congress’ constitutional authority to legislate immigration policy, particularly as it relates to the illegal population in the United States.
The Administration would be wise to abandon any plans for deferred action or parole for the illegal population. Such a move would further erode the American public’s confidence in the federal government and its commitment to securing the borders and enforcing the laws already on the books.
We would appreciate receiving a commitment that the Administration has no plans to use either authority to change the current position of a large group of illegal aliens already in the United States, and ask that you respond to us about this matter as soon as possible.