An idea that's a start...but needs more

Shockingly, I think I may agree with both a Republican, in general, but Jim DeMint, specifically here, today.


His idea:

Term limits for Congress?

By Caroline May - The Daily Caller

Thursday South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint introduced an amendment to the Constitution that would apply term limits to members of Congress.

Ten Republican Senators joined DeMint in his call to limit U.S. Representatives to three terms and U.S. Senators to two terms in office.

“If we’re ever going to permanently change Washington, we must change the process that encourages career politicians to amass personal power instead of making the hard decisions for the nation,” said Senator DeMint. “We need true citizen legislators who spend their time defending the constitution, not currying favor with lobbyists. We need new leaders continually coming to Congress to ensure every taxpayer dollar is spent wisely, not wasted on Washington special interests. We must end the era of permanent politicians that has led us to a $14 trillion debt and a pending fiscal crisis”

My first thought on this was that it's just a bad idea, that the last thing you want to do is to have even more lobbyists up there in Washington, handing out yet more cash and buying influence because more and more representatives in Congress would be filing through.  That wouldn't be good.

But this plan?  This could be a good start.

This could, hopefully, lead to people being in Congress and wanting to be in Congress to do good things--the right things--for the country, instead of just trying to make sure they're taking care of themselves in the cushiest, paying-est jobs in the land.

As my headline above said, it's not enough but it's a start.

What we truly need is campaign finance reform.

We have to get the lobbyist’s and corporation’s and wealthy people's money out of Washington.  We have to erase the need for our representatives in Congress to need this money and that would do it.

That and, as I've said time and again, shorten the election cycle to, say, 3 months, as the British did long ago.

But this might be a glimmer of hope, I think.  

Let's hope this is the beginning of good change for the nation. 

Links:  http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/15/term-limits-for-congress/

http://ebonymompolitics.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/term-limits-for-congress-is-this-a-good-idea/

Worst Super Bowl Commercial for 2011, bar none

I'm trying to figure out here, after seeing this commercial for Pepsi, how you could possibly create an uglier, meaner, more racially stereotypical ad unless you're a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Could they have hit more stereotypes—and deeply ugly ones at that? I can’t imagine the meeting or meetings they must have had when they came up with this one. It makes me wonder if any African American was in the room when it was conceived. I rather doubt it but then, “group think” does have a way of taking over in meetings in general but in corporations more specifically.

What an awful--really awful--ignorant and ugly commercial.  This hits on so many nasty, vicious stereotypes, I'm not even going to go down the list of what they hit here.

So kudos and hats off to you, Pepsico! You came up with the absolute “Wort Super Bowl Commercial for 2011″ Great job! (not).

(Thanks and a h/t to fellow-blogger for the heads up on this one.  For more input see original link here:  http://ebonymompolitics.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/pepsi-super-bowl-commercial-highlights-the-angry-black-woman/)
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,2046668,00.html?xid=yahoo-feat

90 Year old C-Span caller asks "Why aren’t you 'colored people' grateful?"

It has been my contention for years--and it keeps re-proving itself--that White people, since they've not been discriminated against in this country nearly to the extent of Blacks, just don't "get it".  They think the life they lead is the same life Black people lead and that their Americas are the same.  Additionally, Whites think that we've fixed everything in this country for African Americans and that we are "post-racial" and that there is no further discrimination, with all its negative effects, any longer.

I find that a great deal of White people think this, too, and they're nowhere near 90 years old, to be sure.

Finally, too many White people think that the 300 years of first slavery and then discrimination in all its manifestations, has no effect on where Blacks are now, socially, politically and/or financially.

It is frustrating, at least.  It can really be maddening.

And this from a White guy.

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