Scary Days Ahead

Term limits were built into Congress by the founding fathers.  They're called "elections."  The entire House of Representatives stands for election every two years.  One third of the Senate is up every two years.  The problem is that people don't vote in either primaries or in non-presidential elections.  The Tea Party got elected because they voted in local primaries two years ago.  In a lot of places they ran unopposed.  This is the result.

Alabama, Kansas, South Carolina, Texas, Tennesee, Wisconsin, North Carolina have all passed laws requiring voters to have specific (difficult to obtain) identification cards in order to vote.  Why?  Because they want to stop people from voting.  Making voting even more difficulty means they get to sway elections.  No wonder these states are the breeding grounds of the Tea Party.  

What we should propose is a constitutional amendment that makes voting in all elections (primaries, et. al) a citizen's duty in the same way serving on a jury is a duty.  There's a reason these assholes in states like Arizona and are proposing all kinds of  certifications to be permitted to vote; they want fewer people voting.

I am astounded by the basic ignorance of these people who feel the rest of us don't matter.   I fear for all of us.  I love my country and I'm beside myself that these morons have hijacked our government and have so little respect for the rest of us. Worse, most of them don't have a clue what they're doing and can't be bothered to learn what is actually in the Constitution.  They just spout nonsense that they think is in the Constitution.

It doesn't help that our president, who I and every member of my family voted for, has no balls.  He could've invoked the 14th amendment and let the courts work it out years later, except the shmucks in the House threatened to impeach him if he did.  Hell, Clinton was impeached.  He seems to be doing okay.  

What we need to do is vote in primaries to make sure that like-minded people get on the ballot.  

In Wisconsin right now, they put up "fake" Democrats in primaries, hoping to avoid their recall.  Thankfully, the people of Wisconsin were so mad, they actually showed up for the primaries and defeated those candidates.