(for our political arena)

Part 3 -- The Political Stage

Imagine that you are sitting in an auditorium looking up at a stage. On the stage are three chairs -- one to the left side, one in the center, and one to the right side.  A guy sits in each chair. This setup represents the THREE POSITIONS that viable political parties can occupy in a one-day election system. The guys in the chairs represent different parties. They can and do move around to sit in different chairs.

Democrats
(communists, fascists, libs.)
Liberal Left Chair

(imagine the above three groups as the three chairs and spread them out horizontally. I couldn't use any real graphics picture on this blog page)

--Ray Curtis, Monday, June 8, 2009

end of 3

The Anti-Capitalist Mentality by Ludwig von Mises, D. Van Nostrand Co., 1956

Hating Whitey -- and Other Progressive Causes by David Horowitz, Spence Publ., 1999

The Politics Of Bad Faith by David Horowitz, Free Press, 2000

The New Thought Police by Tammy Bruce, Prima Publishing, 2001

Useful Idiots by Mona Charon, Regnery, 2003

Do-Gooders by Mona Charon, Sentinel, 2004

Hating America by John Gibson, Regan Books (Harper Collins), 2004

The New American Revolution by Tammy Bruce, William Morrow, 2005

The Professors -- The 100 Most Dangerous Academics In America by David Horowitz, Regnery, 2006

Indoctrination U -- The Left's War Against Academic Freedom by David Horowitz, Encounter Books, 2007

Is it just me or did I miss something? Mr. Obama's European Tour ran from March 31st till April 5th. He visited London, France, Germany, and The Czech Republic. He then visited Istanbul, Turkey. Finally, he made a surprise visit to Baghdad where he met our troops. I don't see anywhere on that itenerary that he visited Israel -- our main ally in the MidEast and the only democracy in the MidEast. He could so EASILY have visited Tel Aviv coming back from Baghdad. He had plenty of time to visit islamic mosques in each of those cities, yet he had no time for Jewish leaders! Why does this reinforce my STRONG suspicion that he is NOT a Christian, but rather is an islamic who is, behind our backs, aiding and abetting Israel's and the USA's islamic enemies' designs on our lands? He also, I'm told, did not visit our WWII memorials and cemeteries in England and France as did President Reagan. It saddened me to see so many of our troops in Baghdad cheering and clapping for him. I thought that our military personnel were, by majority, conservative. A collectivist "world mind" is beginning to affect us all!

--Ray Curtis, Wednesday April 08, 2009

Ted Kennedy has been in the U.S. Senate for over 46 years. Robert Byrd has been in his office for over 49 years. Rep. Tom Delay was in his office for 25 years. This is insane. When politicians make their office a career, we ALL suffer. The power of incumbency is real and formidable.

We NEED term limits! But it is the KIND of limits that we need to impose that will make a difference. We must limit politicians not to a fixed time of, say, two terms as we do the President, but to ONE NON-CONSECUTIVE TERM AT A TIME. A House member would then serve ONE two-year term and stand out for the next two years. He could run again and serve another two years then stand out, etc. He could run as many times as he wished until the end of his life. The same would apply for the Senate and for the Presidency. The Presidential model here was Grover Cleveland's terms. He was the only President who served two non-consecutive terms. Between his two terms, Chester A. Arthur was President for four years. With non-consecutive term limits, a President could serve five or six terms if the people thought him worthy of bringing back that often. A bad President would most likely never be brought back after one term.

Two arguments have been raised against imposing term limits on Congress. First, is the one that claims bureaucrats will have more power if we limit politicians. But the bureaucracy is a liberal establishment already. At least rotating fresh Congressmen in and out would give 'We The People' some chance of changing that. Second, we don't want to prevent GOOD people from staying on. With rapid cycling of Congressmen, the tendency would be to KEEP bringing back the GOOD ones. BAD ones would tend to be weeded out because of their bad records.

Non-consecutive term limits would eliminate 1) the power of incumbency, 2) the 'Lame Duck' effect since ALL politicians would be similar ducks in the pond, 3) politicians' campaigning on OUR time and on OUR dollar while in office, and 4) politicians' getting too OLD and DEMENTED with no possiblity of removal except by DEATH.

We need a Constitutional Amendment to make this change. But Congress would never limit themselves this way. We The People would have to put MAJOR PRESSURE on our State legislatures to petition Congress to introduce such an Amendment or call a Constitutional Convention to introduce one.  If this doesn't work, then we would have to start MASSIVE elective and/ or recall efforts in each state to get new House and Senate members who would support the new amendment.