"Eliminate re-election and only allow political donations of maximum $20 by constituents who have registered to vote only (to candidates for congress.)"

This is very similar to a measure I would advocate: that contributions to political candidates (or political action committees) be restricted to those residing within and eligible to vote in that candidate's electoral precinct. I don't like the idea of hard dollar amounts simply because compensating becomes a game like the current annual 4% increases in the budget being considered the "baseline".

"In fact, having the congress pass no laws at all would be a big improvement over the past 110 years of unconstitutional laws."

You're not wrong there and the Founders certainly agreed. They intentionally created a Legislative process that was to be deliberate and thoughtful and not easily persuaded by the mob. This was severely undermined by the Seventeenth Amendment IMHO.

"How about an amendment placing a 2 year sunset rule on all legislation including all existing legislation"

Very similar to my version of a Constitutional Amendment: no spending may be authorized beyond the current term of the House. Additionally, a second Constitutional Amendment would limit the authorized spending of the Federal Government (including debt service) to the actual tax receipts collected two years prior. That would not only mean the ongoing spending programs (like entitlements) would be difficult to keep going but there would be a hard limit on the spending as well.

"and a requirement for all reps to have read every bill"

There's a very simple remedy for this used in my State which is very effective: before any Bill may be brought up for a vote it must be read out loud before a Quorum in its entirety. Say goodbye to these omnibus bills or bureaucratic disasters like the misnamed Affordable Care Act!

That is what a dictator would do. Term2 this country is a constitutional republic. It is great when the rule of law is followed. When corrupted and That has been the problem for decades.
You can not ignore the laws to correct it. The media is imploding . Again the censorship is anti freedom, anti free speech and is a leftist tactic.
You tube and Twitter are censoring conservatives.
Think logically.

He was compromised and turned into a RINO.
He resigned because that choice was better than face criminal charges.
The massive and growing list of resignations is over 3600 polititions and executives.
The hate Trump because he will take them on and win.

I agree with term on one term and with you on the 17th. Eliminate re-election and only allow political donations of maximum $20 by constituents who have registered to vote only (to candidates for congress.)
In fact, having the congress pass no laws at all would be a big improvement over the past 110 years of unconstitutional laws.
How about an amendment placing a 2 year sunset rule on all legislation including all existing legislation, and a requirement for all reps to have read every bill and to pass a multiple choice quiz on its meaning before voting- with public record of the test questions and answers of every congressperson. (I suspect that would probably eliminate most congress critters and then very little would be passed. It would probably also be despised as a racist measure.)

These two clowns certainly lie like any of the others.. Let's take "Medicare for All". It's not Medicare.. Medicare has private supplemental coverage, co-pays, and private pharma plans.

What these two are talking about is "Medicaid for All".. you know.. the stuff with a $16 limit for an office visit, and a suitably-bottom priority for doctors and by law "shall" recover its expenses by taking all of your assets if you die. The UK is seriously looking at shit-canning their national health care and anyone with "means" in Canada has private insurance and doesn't use theirs.

The other straight-out lie: "The tax cut would have paid for free college education"..,. Umm... the tax plan is calculated in a 10-year term, like all federal budgets. These two liars (although an ignorant dumb-shit in the case of Ocasio-Cortez) conveniently do not mention that the "free college" estimate is only for ONE YEAR... compared to 10 years of tax cuts (now fueling 4.1% growth). Each 1% of growth, by the way, is another $1 trillion of economic activity every year and another 1 or 2 million jobs. If this math is so important without worrying about a slippery slope, San Francisco spends around $100 million a year on homeless programs for under 10,000 homeless people. Hell, just give them all a check and they won't be poor anymore and you can fire the social workers.

I don't see the 'angst' over healthcare and education costs. Education goes up in lockstep with increases in the student loan limits, stop increasing the student loan limits and universities will figure it out like anyone else. If you are building a $550k house, but you only get an appraisal for $520k, the homebuilder doesn't walk away - what the hell are they going to do with their capacity they don't use? They sell it. So will universities. The military is also a great funding source, it helped with both of my bachelor's degrees and my MBA. Works fine, I highly recommend it.

Healthcare is only expensive if you don't have a decent income, fix the income side and it becomes a non-issue. You fix the income with strong growth instead of 20 years of stagnant, what happened was inflation and the Rule of 20 with zero income increase. Fix that, and health care and housing and education look like a 50% cut.

There is one thing for certain, it's a little hard to live in America and raise a family while working at McDonalds or Walmart. Newsflash, it was hard to raise a family while working at Kmart or McDonald's when I was a kid - that's why my entire teenager paycheck from Kmart went to buy gas, insurance, and make the car payment on my 10-year-old Mustang. Mom & Dad covered the rest... that's kind of how it works. Don't like it? If you can fog a mirror, you can get a student loan. Figure it out. It sucked, that's why I joined the military, to make a better life for myself. It's really, really sickening listening to the lazy snowflakes cry about life like their the first generation to have any headwinds. 5,000 ways to fix that, it's called "put down the cell phone, pick one, and stop crying".

"If there is only ONE term, there is pressure to get on with it."

Actually, no - it becomes strictly a trophy. It is only the opportunity to retain one's office that gives them any sense of responsibility to the voters in the first place. I have to seriously disagree with you on this.

I think one thing that would dramatically help would be the repeal of the Seventeenth Amendment and the re-establishment of the Senate as a representative body for the States.

We need competition and a sense of promising and delivering. If they CAN be re-elected, they are looking only to their next campaign to put food on the table. If there is only ONE term, there is pressure to get on with it.

At least Sanders, that new creature in NY are honest. Most of the politicians today are NOT honest and they tell you one thing and do another. I would rather face a thief who tells me he will steal my stuff than face one tht tells me he is my friend and then steals from me

Paul Ryan is a bit of a snake. That part made me wary of him. He goes as the wind blows. I wonder that the real reason is that he wants out of the House. Maybe he just cant stand Trump, which seems to be a reason others have used.

I recommend everyone look at who has and how much has been given to the Clintons. Their foundation has a small staff, they put "86%" (which I doubt) toward programs, but when you look a the amount of money there, skimming about 10% for themselves is very significant. Nonetheless, the Kingdom of Kuwait or a Saudi Sheikh isn't going to kick down $10 million without expecting something in return. We're not talking a $25 monthly credit card contribution like a Bernie donor.

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/con...

As bad as she is, I have a greater visceral reaction toward socialists like Bernie or the New York one. I swore an oath to defend the Constitution from socialists and communists, I have no interest in letting that hell take root here. 100 million... that's how many socialism murdered in the 20th century. It sounds great until you run out of other people's money and you have chased away all the producers in society.

I have mixed feelings about term limits, but thing in general they are a good idea, though for me it would be two terms for a Senator and four or five for a Congressman. I think one is a little too much turnover.

I had a visceral dislike of her for a long time. I thought she was a "vicious bitch" under that thin veneer of civility. When she ran for president in 2016, I noted her handlers insisted she have this big open mouthed smile to thicken that veil of civility. I thought that at the last minute someone would come up and kick her out of the race. I thought for awhile it would be Sanders, but in the very end it was Trump. No wonder she htes him

While I agree with the sentiment, technically speaking the Speaker of the House is a Constitutional office because it factors into the Presidential line of succession (right behind the Vice President). From a practical perspective, the Speaker is responsible for managing the business of the House in general session, so I don't really think you can eliminate that position.

Could you get rid of the Whip positions? Minority Leader? etc. Those I think you could get rid of and quash some of the gate-keeping that goes on. And I'm totally in favor of banning by Constitutional fiat the current requirements that put party fundraising requirements on Committee Leadership positions. That's a load of garbage.

I had high hopes for Congressman Ryan when he was the primary one bucking Obamacare. I thought he was an excellent choice as VP running mate with Mitt Romney. I have watched his fall into the quagmire of the swamp with much disappointment. He certainly isn't the same Paul Ryan I once cheered for.

we all should not vote for any incumbents. That way we enforce a single term rule for all elected officials. True that it cleans out some good wood temporarily,, but might encourage congress to pass single term limits, and then we can vote in the best candidate

One point of clarification: the President can't do a thing about elected officials such as Paul Ryan. Only the people of Wisconsin can issue a recall of their active Representative and that is usually called an election.

Also, there is a law on the books that curtails the ability of the President to fire members of the bureaucracy unless they are appointed by the President and subject to confirmation hearings in the Senate. I don't know where Rosenstein sits there because my understanding is that he got the seat because someone else stepped down - not because he was appointed to fill it. Thus that one is kind of murky. Any clarification would be appreciated.

All that technicality aside, I agree with you and would happy join you with broom and dust pan. I'd lose over half the Senate, over half of the House, and 80% or more of the Federal bureaucracy... And it would all come back after the next election. :( Sigh.

I've hated her ass for far longer than that, I was deployed to Bosnia a few weeks before her "getting out of the plane and running for cover under sniper fire" bullshit comment. Her husband didn't let American troops in Bosnia carry side-arms or rifles, and the few who did weren't authorized ammo for the magazines.. "Sniper fire" my ass! She's been a liar since her mommy dropped her on her head when she was a baby. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/f...

They were cool. I hope that I did in fact invade the safe space of at least some liberals, but I needed to have an "emotionsl support" T-shirt

Are you kidding? He'd be held up in the liberal media or any Soros-funded group just like Andrew Cuomo on CNN!

Oh, you mean a legitimate business that actually turns a profit and isn't politically motivated. Right. ;)

I'm surprised that Amazon didn't ban the t-shirts because they invaded the safe spaces of their sensitive customers. Gosh, sometimes Amazon puts profits before their political bias.

I like being a deplorable. Hillary didnt speak her mind often, but she certainly did that day. And that alienated half the voters right there. Within days there were "deplorable me" T-shirts all over Amazon.

Just stating the problem.. the obvious assumption is the leadership is incompetent, but the problem is 100 years of liberal protectionist policies codified into law for government employees.

In California, if a union government employee wants to be 'gone' all day to do precinct-walks for democrat candidates, honestly, I don't think there would be any management challenge. If the same person were to be 'gone' to help a Republican candidate - they better use paid-vacation time or would be terminated as AWOL - specifically to get rid of that evil conservative in their midst...

Incredible. No wonder our government if filled with idiots

It’s not a lack of “will”, it’s a lack of authority. Under the Civil Service Act, a government employee needs to either steal something (like a pencil) or kill someone. Not doing their job, not meeting deadlines, or generally being an asshole isn’t grounds to dismiss someone.

If you recall, Trump got the VA Secretary legislative power through Congress to “fire” someone.

agreed

true...good point...line 'em up and public hanging...