Barbara Boxer Retiring In 2016

[Ace Boobtoucher]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/08/barbara-boxer-retires_n_6436800.html
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/08/politics/barbara-boxer-not-running/





The announcement caught Pelosi Galore off guard.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/what-nancy-pelosi-caught-off-guard-by-boxers-retirement-during-presser/

 

[Mayhem]

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/what-nancy-pelosi-caught-off-guard-by-boxers-retirement-during-presser/

“She called me, said she wanted to talk to me personally,” Rep. Pelosi said after a few moments of stunned silence. “I thought maybe she wanted to have dinner tonight or something.”

And, impressively, Rep. Pelosi improvises a two-minute long tribute right then and there about her fellow California delegate, while clearly trying to process the news.

Won't catch a Republican thinking on their feet like that.

I would so do Nancy Pelosi. :banana:

 

[Will E Worm]

Can Pelosi, Reed, Clinton, Boehner, McCain, Emanuel, de Blasio, Feinstein, Schumer, Bloomberg, Sotomayor and Kagan also go away?

 

[Mayhem]

Can Pelosi, Reed, Clinton, Boehner, McCain, Emanuel, de Blasio, Feinstein, Schumer, Bloomberg, Sotomayor and Kagan also go away?

Everybody here thinks the same thing about you. :thefinger:

 

[Will E Worm]

Everybody here thinks the same thing about you. :thefinger:

Many think that about you.

Especially when you act like this.

 

[Mayhem]

Many think that about you.

Especially when you act like this.

Only you Will. Only you could tee this one up so perfectly. See, by your own wording, when I "act like this" is an occasional event. But you're you all the time.

Now be a good lad and go build a bomb shelter in Rome. It will keep you safe from the American Civil War which will be started by the Mossad committing mass murders in Maryland.

 

[Will E Worm]

Mayhem

 

[xfire]

The announcement caught Pelosi Galore off guard.

haha Pelosi Galore, great nickname for her, curious, perhaps she'll run against Issa for Boxer's seat.

 

[Will E Worm]

Pelosi is seventy-four, she needs to leave.



Term limits are needed.

 

[Mayhem]

Term limits are needed.

No they're not.

 

[Will E Worm]

No they're not.

Yes, they are.

 

[Straight Shooter]

I hope Gavin Newsom and/or Kamala Harris run for the seat

 

[Mayhem]

Term limits are needed.

No they're not.

Yes, they are.

We have always had term limits. They're called elections. By imposing artificial term limits on politicians, you're simply openning the door to them not being invested in their job. They can go off on whatever ridiculous tangent they want, knowing that they won't be there in 4, 6, 8 years. And therefore, they don't have to worry about accountability.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Then again, if term limits are good for Presidents and the mayor of NYC (except for that asshole Bloomberg who shit all over the city's charter) shouldn't they be good enough for congress? Making elected officials live under rules they impose would be a wake up call for a bunch of those clowns. Plus it would force the voting public to take an active interest in politics because they would have to learn about candidates rather than just toeing the party line and voting for the guy who's been there forever.

Without even thinking too hard I can name at least twenty people in Congress, on either side of the aisle, who've overstayed their welcome. You see a constant sub thirty percent approval rating for congress but most people vote for the incumbent thus perpetuating that loathing. By instituting term limits we could save millions of dollars on their retirement pay alone. In what other job does someone get to collect retirement benefits after 8 or twelve years? These fuckers have had it too good for too long.

And we need to repeal the 17th amendment as well.

 

[Will E Worm]

Then again, if term limits are good for Presidents and the mayor of NYC (except for that asshole Bloomberg who shit all over the city's charter) shouldn't they be good enough for congress? Making elected officials live under rules they impose would be a wake up call for a bunch of those clowns. Plus it would force the voting public to take an active interest in politics because they would have to learn about candidates rather than just toeing the party line and voting for the guy who's been there forever.

Without even thinking too hard I can name at least twenty people in Congress, on either side of the aisle, who've overstayed their welcome. You see a constant sub thirty percent approval rating for congress but most people vote for the incumbent thus perpetuating that loathing. By instituting term limits we could save millions of dollars on their retirement pay alone. In what other job does someone get to collect retirement benefits after 8 or twelve years? These fuckers have had it too good for too long.

And we need to repeal the 17th amendment as well.

Term limits.


Repeal the 16th Amendment

 

[Mayhem]

Good points, but my immediate response is that absolutely nothing is ever going "force the voting public to take an active interest in politics". You don't like it, I don't like it, but I take it as fact.

Other than that, I stand by my point. If I know that no matter what, I'm gone in 6 or 8 years, what do I care about the things I vote for or against?

And I have no current opinion on the President's imposed term limit. Meaning I don't necessarily support it.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Term limits.


Repeal the 16th Amendment

16th amendment was never ratified so it's illegal as hell.

 

[Jack Davenport]

Good riddance! Ma'am

 

[bahodeme]

Maybe she can get Feinstein to join her.

 

[Will E Worm]

16th amendment was never ratified so it's illegal as hell.

Yes.