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Articles About
Congressional Term Limits
Republican
Revolution?
By Mark M. Alexander - Oct 14, 2005
Executive Editor & Publisher, The Federalist Patriot
What on earth has happened to Republicans in Washington?
Twenty years ago, we conservatives could only dream of an opportunity
like the one our elected representatives are now squandering: a
Republican President with majorities in both houses of Congress, and
two chances to nominate constitutionalists to the Supreme Court. For
reasons we can't begin to explain, the Republican Party is in the midst
of an identity crisis.
Cheney
and the Monroe Doctrine
By Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for
Term Limits
We read that Vice Presidential candidate Richard Cheney is
being “investigated” by writer Pete Yost in a bylined article presented
as straight news by the Associated Press. The subject is
Vice
Presidential candidate Dick Cheney and his defense of Lt.Col.
Oliver North’s assistance to the anti-communist freedom fighters of
Nicaragua in the Iran Contra hearings thirteen years ago. North
wasn’t
just helping freedom fighters. He was helping defend America by
helping to reassert the Monroe Doctrine.
Chinese
Dragon Awakens
From The Washington Times
By Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough 6.24-05
China is building its military forces faster than U.S. intelligence and
military analysts expected, prompting fears that Beijing will attack
Taiwan in the next two years, according to Pentagon officials.
Spurning
America
By Michael Barone 10-17-05
As it appeared in Townhall.com
Mr. Barone is Senior Writer,
/U.S.
News & World Report/
Army Special Forces soldiers, as my U.S. News colleague Linda Robinson
writes in her riveting book, "Masters of Chaos," are very much aware of
"the tradition of their military history."
Dr.
Dobson's Secret
By Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for
Term Limits
Dr. James Dobson has been dancing
and prancing about like a schoolgirl,
all atwitter because he thinks he knows something no one else knows,
and is dying to tell it. And name dropping the bargain.
Initial
Thoughts on the Supreme Court and Harriet Miers
By Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for
Term Limits
With the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, President
Bush could have stated that he considered her to be in the mold of
Justices Scalia and Thomas, as has so often promised, but he did not.
I wish he had. But most conservative observers give the President
high marks for his other court nominees. Why would he wimp out at
this time?
The Grinch who
steals Christmas and The Salvation Army And why write about a Grinch
and Christmas in early autumn?
By Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
Many folks do not realize that General William Booth, founder of the
Salvation Army (Heart to God, Hand to Man), was a 19th Century London,
contemporary
of Karl Marx, founder of Godless Communism. Who knows they might
have been neighbors. Founded in 1865, Booth’s Army and its
Christian
warriors have outlived Marx and his atheistic teachings.
Conservatives
versus RINOs
In 1958, running
for president, John Kennedy got a big laugh when he announced "I have
just received the following wire from my generous daddy: ‘Dear Jack —
Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm
going to pay for a landslide.’" And sure enough, the 1960 election was
very, very close.
Our Bankrupt Nation
By Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
Treasury Secretary John Snow
recently announced that the total unfunded
liabilities of the United States government total $80 trillion. Ouch!
That's a debt load equivalent to about six times our current GDP. It is
almost twice as much as the value of all goods and services produced
everywhere in the world last year. And it is more money than has been
earned by every American cumulatively since the Mayflower landed here
500 years ago.
—Stephen Moore, Human Events
Not
today's
children, nor any of their unborn descendants will ever be able to pay
it off.
What part of "Bankrupt" do we not understand?
Death
of the Dollar
By Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
Now I want to talk to you
about the destruction of our Dollar. I want
to ask everyone here, individually, to pick a Dollar number. How
much
more would it cost to hire an unskilled laborer today than it cost in
the year 1913? In other words, how much value has the Dollar lost
in
the 90 years between 1913 and 2003?
Supreme
Court
By Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
Following the resignation of Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor, there has been much discussion of possible
replacements to frill that vacancy.
President
Bust?
Lame Duck Status?
By Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
What do John Bolton, Tom Delay, Social Security reform, and the
judicial advise and consent issue have in common? They are all
subjects which the Democrats in Congress see as opportunities to
marginalize President Bush.
The Lessons of
9-11
By Herbert E. Meyer,- Storm King
Press
Not even President Bush's biggest fans claim that
he's articulate, and the President himself cheerfully pokes fun at his
inability to use the English language very well. But when it comes to
the War on Terrorism, this isn't a laughing matter. Every time the
President gives a major speech about the War – as he did again on
Monday, in New Jersey – he winds up asserting his policy, rather than
explaining it. He alludes to "the lessons of 9-11," but never quite
spells out what these lessons are. While the President's speeches are
satisfying to those who already agree with him, they aren't persuasive
to many of those who don't.
We Did it in Louisiana (Of All
Places)
By
Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
Yes we did. They told us In Baton Rouge that it could not be done. Yet
a group of amateurs persuaded the Louisiana Legislature to amend the
state's constitution to limit legislators' terms. The bill passed with
90% of the Louisiana House of Representatives, 80% of the Senate.
Term
Limitation: the Will of
the People
By Rense Johnson, Chairman,
Citizens for Term Limits
In the 1990's there was a move to place term limits on state
legislatures across the country. All were imposed by the ballot
initiative except for Louisiana, which amended its constitution. Of the
20 states to impose these limits only 15 have survived attacks by state
courts or the legislators themselves to nullify the limits.
President Reagan and Landslides
By Rense Johnson, Chairman,
Citizens for Term Limits
In a two-party political system people more often vote against rather
than for a president. Occasionally a presidential candidate comes along
who inspires Americans to vote for him and not against anyone.
President Reagan was such a man.
Carter, Cuba and the Monroe Doctrine
By Rense Johnson, Chairman,
Citizens for Term Limits
Mr.
Carter is embarking on a pilgrimage to Cuba to try to make things right
between that country and the United States. Carter is old enough to
know better, but one might think he has lost touch with reality.
Solemnly Swear
"I do solemnly swear that I
will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United
States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution of the United States."
Alas, President Bush has already indicated that he will
sign the blatantly unconstitutional Campaign Finance Reform bill and
may have signed it by the time this is posted.
Open Letter to Woody Jenkins
In an open letter, the Chairman of Citizens for Term Limits outlines
the reason for Mr. Jenkins unsuccessful bid for the U. S. Senate. The message was, and
still is, clear that term limitation is a powerful campaign issue.
Damn
the Constitution — Full Spend Ahead
As a new New Dealer, Schumer wants
to get back to the FDR formula of "Tax and tax, spend and spend, and
elect and elect," which of course means bigger government.
The Boy in the Man
By
Rense Johnson, Chairman,
Citizens for Term Limits
Like
a favorite uncle whom you love to have visit in your home, Rumsfeld is
friendly, yet at once deadly serious...
GOP
— Gone
to the Dogs… or From the Dogs?
By Rense Johnson,
Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
Let
us pretend that instead of elephants Republicans are symbolized by
dogs. Dogs? Yes dogs. For many years the GOP consisted of nothing but
good, solid, conservative dogs. But then something strange began to
happen…
America — Love It or Leave It
By Barry Laudermilk
Since the terrorist attacks on September 11, we have experienced a
surge in patriotism by the majority of Americans. However, the dust
from the attacks had barely settled in New York and Washington D.C.
when the “politically correct” crowd began complaining about the
possibility that our patriotism was offending others.
The
Inevitability
of Congressional Term Limitation
By Rense
Johnson,
Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
The
average man in the street wants congressional term limits as badly as
he wants state term limits. This helps make term limitation a powerful
election issue and even more so now.
The War That the War Eclipsed
By John L. Perry,
contributor to Newsmax.com
President Bush calls it a war on
terrorism. It's much more than that. It's a war for the survival of all
that's great about America.
The Coming Together of America
By
John L. Perry, contributor to Newsmax.com
The worst of times bring out the
best in Americans. It's happening at this moment, compatriots surging
to support this nation, its values, its president.
National Review: Principles Negotiable?
By Rense Johnson, Chairman,
Citizens for Term Limits
We
are all impressed with the job Mayor Rudy Giuliani is doing as mayor of
New York City. Nevertheless it was startling and appalling last
Saturday night, four days after the Infamous Tuesday, that participant
Kate O'Beirne offered as her outrage of the week… "term limits,"
because the New York term limitation law will prevent Rudy from
continuing to serve after his current term expires. One wonders if this
good lady has taken leave of her senses entirely.
Understaffed
President
In the wake of the cowardly and
devastating bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon,
President Bush faces what may be the most crucial crisis ever faced by
an American President. Yet nearly eight months into his presidency, he
has less than half his appointive personnel in place. Why?
From the Sublime
to the Despicable
Governor
Keating of Oklahoma had put out a call for blood. Almost immediately
donor lines developed, five to six hours in length. Then just as
quickly we were buffeted back to the reality of human greed.
Do
We Have
Our Best and Our Brightest Governing Us in Washington? Shouldn't We Have?
by Rense
Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
Not to beat up on poor
Congressman Gary Condit, yet while he is twisting in the wind it may be
as good a time as any for us to air a study published by Capitol
Hill Blue. It may help explain why so few members of Congress have
thus far been publicly critical of him.
Career Politicians, "The
Rotten Government We're Getting" and Johnson's Law
by Rense Johnson,
Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
If Gresham's Law tells us that bad money drives good money out of
circulation. then the political counterpart would be Johnson's Law—bad
politicians drive good politicians out of circulation.
A Plan
to Save America From P.C. Extremism
by Barry Farber, NewsMax.com
We're beginning to feel the strangulating effects of what sounded light
and fluffy back at the beginning when we began to call it "political
correctness."…
That little monster… once cute, has grown. It now has this society
locked in a full nelson.
America's
Independence — The Need for Giants, Then and Now
by Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for
Term Limits
As we celebrate the 225th anniversary of our
nation's founding it is useful to reflect on the role played by the
founding giants.
Jumping Jim Jeffords
Jumping Jim Jeffords, the flip-flop frog, flits from
lily pad to lily pad, seeking personal political promotion by declaring
himself an Independent instead of a Republican, leaping nimbly from the
Republican lily pad to the Independent lily pad. Is there a Democrat
lily pad in Jeffords' future? Only when it suits the ambition of
you-know-who.
Deja-vu
All Over Again
As Yogi Berra used to say, "It's deja-vu all over again."
Caps vs Price Controls
Vice President Cheney and other members of the
administration have used the term "Caps" when referring to putting a
lid on energy prices, when they really mean price controls. Granted
they oppose the "caps," but they should not use the liberals' own
terminology.
Out of Control?
The surprising Senate fight over
high-tech sales to China
by Ellen
Bork
What looked like a
consensus between the White House and Capitol Hill to loosen controls
on the export of "dual-use" items ran into surprising opposition on the
Senate floor. Reprinted
with permission.
Money in Politics
Americans Deserve Better
by Rense Johnson, Chairman,
Citizens for Term Limits
"Nothing in our current political system creates
more alienation, more corruption, more mischief, and more distrust on
the part of the public than that created by the volume of money flowing
through Washington..."
Campaign Finance Reform — Washington
Style
How does this benefit America?
The famous Campaign Finance bill is now up for debate
in the U. S. Senate. Notwithstanding the speeches, posing and
posturing in the Senate, the questions the country should be asking are…
Twenty-second and Twenty-seventh
Amendments
… and rewriting history
The
Privilege of Serving the Public
By John Derbyshire, NR
contributing editor & NRO columnist
Campaign
Finance Reform
Are You Happy with Congress? If you believe that for years Congress has failed to live up to
the Framers' vision of the way that body would function, then you need
to read this article.
The
Emperor Has No Clothes
Term Limits — Answers to Most Common Negative
Arguments
Reflections on an American Military Cemetery
What Will Term Limits Do For Our Country?
Battery Bunnies of Washington
Ignorance of the Law
Wouldn't It Be Nice…?
The Threat From Within
Eight
More Clarence Thomases Ann Coulter tells us that "A lot is at
stake for liberals with the [Supreme] court. If they lose a liberal
vote, they will be forced to fight political battles through a messy
little system known as 'democracy.'" Read her article.
The New Player-Haters
By James L. Hirsen, J.D., Ph.D.
They're
afraid. They're very afraid. Their panic is justified because their
adversaries' success means their very survival is in jeopardy. The plan
of their foes is a simple one, solid in its history and compelling in
its logic. It leaves them sniveling, stammering and ultimately
resorting to the one tactic that might stave off their impending
defeat. They lie, and lie big.
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