welcome back to the special audience edition of hannity as we take you ideas the liberty amendments. you have, what, 11, that you propose? 11 proposed. an amendment to establish term limits for members of congress. before you tell us, i ll turn to the audience. there we have it up on the screen and ask all of you, how many think that this would be a good amendment as proposed by mark? we have some steve, you disagree. you can argue in a minute. but explain this amendment. well, term limits for president of the united states. i thought we ought to have term limits for members of congress because the history of our republic, the framers never intended there to be professional politicians. that s why they staggered their
the senate serve in the house and people serving only one term in the united states senate. i saw john kerry say the other day he spent 29 years in the united states senate. he was many of those years a junior senator to ted kennedy and no turnover as mark says in the congress but you get the term limits in there and you let the people vote directly for the senators and that s going to keep people active in the politics just by the way i think mark s call for the convention is going to make people more interested in the grass roots on who gets in to their state legislature. quick response to you. well, 12 years, they can do a hell of a lot of damage. we have a president for eight years and the term limits is very, very important. but who are they representing in the 12 years? they claim to represent the people of the state. they don t they may or they may not. the problem isn t just limited to 12 years. the problem is the states don t have any say in the legislation coming down t
there s a reason for that. you can see look. you can t talk about breaking up the ruling class and the mentality without breaking up the ruling class and that mentality. and more than any group up there, congress has become very insular. they pass these laws. i mean, obama care was pass around 10:00 at night, 12:00. nobody got to see the final legislation. that s because they pat each other on the back. they get along. all great and so forth. in terms of citizen participation, because of incumbency like gerrymandering, free media, look at jahmeshia is on tv about every 14 minutes as an example, it becomes more and more difficult for citizen challengers to be effective. that s what the framers wanted, really. you look at gerrymandering in this country. the house of representatives. depending on the district is extremely difficult to dislodge an incumbent. what i m saying is there ought to be a and the framers, i
it s time to build a better enterprise. together. welcome back to the special audience edition of hannity as we take you ideas the liberty amendments. you have, what, 11, that you propose? 11 proposed. an amendment to establish term limits for members of congress. before you tell us, i ll turn to the audience. there we have it up on the screen and ask all of you, how many think that this would be a good amendment as proposed by mark? we have some steve, you disagree. you can argue in a minute. but explain this amendment. well, term limits for president of the united states. i thought we ought to have term limits for members of congress because the history of our republic, the framers never intended there to be professional politicians. that s why they staggered their
there s a reason for that. you can see look. you can t talk about breaking up the ruling class and the mentality without breaking up the ruling class and that mentality. and more than any group up there, congress has become very insular. they pass these laws. i mean, obama care was pass around 10:00 at night, 12:00. nobody got to see the final legislation. that s because they pat each other on the back. they get along. all great and so forth. in terms of citizen participation, because of incumbency like gerrymandering, free media, look at jahmeshia is on tv about every 14 minutes as an example, it becomes more and more difficult for citizen challengers to be effective. that s what the framers wanted, really. you look at gerrymandering in this country. the house of representatives. depending on the district is extremely difficult to dislodge an incumbent. what i m saying is there ought to be a and the framers, i