On Oct. 15, 1991, despite sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court, 52-48.
Five years ago: Republican Donald Trump sought to undermine the legitimacy of the U.S. presidential election, pressing unsubstantiated claims that the contest was “rigged” against him.
At least the last couple of years were historically consistent.
History is always consistent. Joe Biden is as corrupt and dishonest now as when he and Ted Kennedy - also corrupt - led the resistance to the Thomas nomination.
with all the past and present talk about term limits. why don't we restrict political service to every politician to two four year terms and once they are done serving we take them all out into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and dump them out. if anyone makes it back to shore alive they will be allowed to serve another set of terms if they want to. 👍🏻
Term limits is a fine idea in theory, however, I doubt you'll get many in Congress to agree and make it happen.
Term limits, like Communism, is a fine idea in theory that is entirely inconsistent with human nature and the nature of civics in general, and won't accomplish what people think it will accomplish. This gets me into heated arguments with my fellow conservatives...heated, because I point out the obvious logical flaw in the notion. They think term limits will somehow mitigate the corrupting influence of power and self-interest. Some say "money," but money IS power, and all power is self-interest. Term limits cannot mitigate this reality, for two reasons: First, money moves faster than civics, always and inevitably. Second, the corrupting influence of power/money/self-interest begins long before a politician is elected, and by the time the politician assumes office, he or she already has a structure of monied interest to whom they are beholden.
Ronald Reagan, for example, spent most of the 1950's on the payroll of GE to the tune of $125k a year ($1.3 million in 2021 dollars), getting educated in the realities of big business and big money from the most powerful business executives in the US. This was the period during which he transformed from a New-Deal Democrat to a Goldwater Republican. But he didn't first achieve elective office until 1967. Don't even get me started on Old Joe Kennedy and his boys.
It is impossible to get to any national office without already having wealthy people behind you, so the money/power axis is already established before the politician arrives. If you impose term limits, all you achieve is more frequent turnover of the same power-driven, corporately subsidized egos with a talent for getting lots of people to vote for them. Because money moves faster than civics, the money will have zero trouble keeping up with the turnover.
And this is what the electorate really wants, else no one would vote for these egos, and renegade fringe candidates would be more frequently elected.
The reason Congress won't go along with term limits, other than they don't want them, is that they know most of the electorate doesn't really want term limits either. It's just talk.