{"id":40315,"date":"2019-12-15T03:33:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T03:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40315"},"modified":"2019-12-15T03:33:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T03:33:43","slug":"memo-to-steyer-congress-isnt-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40315","title":{"rendered":"Memo to Steyer: Congress isn’t ‘appointed’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As if yet another billionaire presidential candidate is more astute than the one who’s in office already.<\/p>\n

I heard a TV ad today from Tom Steyer, one of two billionaires seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Steyer, who burst onto the national scene by financing an impeach Donald Trump effort nationally, needs a basic civics lesson if he’s going to make a pitch for good government.<\/p>\n

Steyer’s advertisement, which makes the pitch for mandated term limits, referred — in Steyer’s own voice — to Congress being “appointed<\/em> to what amounts to a lifetime job.”<\/p>\n

C’mon, Tom! Get with the program, dude!<\/p>\n

Congress isn’t appointed<\/em> to anything. House of Representatives members run for election and\/or re-election every two years. Senators serve for six-year elected<\/em> terms.<\/p>\n

Therefore, we already have a form of term limits on the books. The U.S. Constitution has taken care of that matter by requiring elections for the entire House every other year, along with one-third of the Senate. Voters have plenty of opportunities, I submit, to limit the terms of members with their ballots.<\/p>\n

Whether they choose to keep their House member or their senator in office until hell freezes over is their call exclusively. If their elected official is doing a good job, then they get to keep doing a good job. If not, well, voters can boot ’em out.<\/p>\n

Term limits? We have them already!<\/p>\n\n

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As if yet another billionaire presidential candidate is more astute than the one who’s in office already. I heard a TV ad today from Tom Steyer, one of two billionaires seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Steyer, who burst onto the national scene by financing an impeach Donald Trump effort nationally, needs a basic civics … Continue reading Memo to Steyer: Congress isn’t ‘appointed’<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7225,4552,8129,5043],"class_list":["post-40315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-term-limits","tag-tom-steyer","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40316,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40315\/revisions\/40316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}