Category: Term Limits

27-term Michigan Rep. John Conyers’ retirement is a “sad end to a long career.” Hardly. Conyers made a career out of race-focused politics. Leaving the …

Over 90% of representatives and over 80% of senators were re-elected in 2008. Far from being a sign that Americans are pleased with the job …

I recently had about ninety seconds alone with Congressman John Culberson, the Republican representative from Texas district 7, which includes the west Houston area, and used the opportunity to ask him about congressional term limits.

“What do you stay to those who believe that term limits are necessary to restore representative government to our republic?”  I asked.

Thanks to the wisdom of Alaska’s voters, our second term-limits poster boy and convicted felon Ted Stevens will apparently be returning to the senate to …

Congressman John Murtha recently shot himself in the foot by calling his own constituents “racist” and “rednecks” while campaigning for Barack Obama in Pennsylvania.  Despite …

The NY Times says that the New York City Council has changed the city’s term limits law to allow Mayor Michael Bloomberg to seek – …

The American political system is a drag at times like these, when one is about to become disenfranchised in Washington.  Barack Obama will have an …

The L.A. Times reports that only five of the 153 races in the recent election were true contests. Read the story. Since politicians seem to …