Re-election rates in the House rarely dip below 90%, and in the Senate rarely below 80%. The vast majority of Congress on both sides of the aisle is safe under almost any circumstances.
Maybe we should start thinking about the possibility that that is a bug, not a feature.
Then call for a Constitutional convention to draw up a term limits amendment (the Supreme Court has already said that any term limit “law” passed by a state that applies to its members of Congress is unconstitutional, and I don’t see the Congress passing a law that would put a lot of its members out of a job soon, which is also why they’re not going to agree on an amendment either), and hope that you can get 38 states to agree to it.
I have the odd feeling that in a fair number of districts that is not going to be the case in the next election. Everybody knows at least a couple people who are now sitting at home, or are not getting a benefit. It will suck to be the politician facing the shitstorm in the next election.
And why the fuck do they think a terrorist action [shutting down the government in blackmail] is a legal action? This sort of shit should cost them all their seats. I for one would have no problem with ever single seat in congress and the senate being emptied and new elections held across the board, and anybody who has ever served in either branch is disqualified to run. Sorry to the ones not in on this shit, but it is time to start over. And I agree that there needs to be a modification on how they are run - term limitations, financial limitations, retirement package limitations. Everything.
That was the case in 1995 too, but there was basically no change in the makeup of Congress in 1996. Of course, there was a sacrificial lamb (Bob Dole) on everybody’s ballot that year to take all of the anger about the Republican Congress.
Because it is a legal action. It’s patently stupid, but it’s definitely legal for the House to vote in patently stupid ways.
Which law are they breaking?
And you, of course, are the person who decides when this “do over” happens, right?
I, for one, would have serious problems with that. I suspect you would, too, if other people got to make that decision.
One hopes the electorate will blame the responsible Party … the Republicans … but frankly, I haven’t seen a lot of intelligence in the electorate of late.
Well, I would call a stoppage of Social Security checks and veteran’s checks circumstances that would change that, but since that’s not gonna happen in the current shutdown … yeah, those seats are safe.
Nah, not that. I’m thinking a proportional representation amendment. Eliminates gerrymandering entirely.