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Congressional candidates play to anti-incumbency anger with term limit propositions

7:11 AM 07/20/2010
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(CNN) — Anti-establishment candidates are capitalizing on widespread anti-incumbent fervor and proposing term limits as a way to bring the power back to the people.

As political hopefuls try to persuade voters to send them to Congress, they’re also promising they won’t be there long.

Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul said that if elected, he can’t see himself serving more than two terms. In Rhode Island, Democratic congressional hopeful Bill Lynch has proposed a 12-year cap in the House and Senate. And in Maryland, Republican Andy Harris has assured voters that, should he go to the U.S. House, he’ll be out of there by 2023.

It’s a message that polls well and gets applause at campaign rallies, but David King, director of Harvard’s program for Newly Elected Members of the U.S. Congress, said term limits do more harm than good.

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  • rfpzzzzz

    Self imposed term limits led us to the degenerate scum chairing all those committees for the Dems. This happened before and good people leave because that is how the government should work but the problem is the bad politicians as well as armies of bureaucrats stay. Now we also see the extent of the media corruption as well. Citizens have very little hope now unless an uprising of very shrewd , tough decent people come to the rescue. It will take an act of God to save the US right now. The honorable thing for decent politicians at this point is not to be noble and promise only a couple of terms but to promise to stay until this mess is cleaned up. Our government is a Den of Thieves and we need those who can overturn the tables and put things right.

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  • alice

    I wish this would happen. The less time people stay in Washington gives them less time to get comfortable and come up with these 3000 page bills they have no idea what is in them that they ten have to write 10 more bills to correct the first one. Breath…

    Imagine….if they spent the time to really work together and put together one bill that was good for the people. That would only happen if they knew they were there for limited time. IMO