Democrat Socialist Leaders and Lagging Republicans
By Rense Johnson, Chairman, Citizens for Term Limits
Watching results of the New Hampshire presidential primary Tuesday night, I must have heard the word “change” uttered by Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama and John Edwards dozens of times.
We were not told what to change from, nor into what, but they were most certainly against a lot of institutions, like corporations, oil companies, the Iraq War and Washington.
Well, one out of four ain’t bad, we are against Washington too, although not in the same way the Democrats profess. Citizens for Term Limits is and has been strongly for recapturing Washington and our federal government and returning it to the American people.
Sadly, the kind of change these three Democrats are trying to sell us is socialism. Take from the rich and give to the poor, and send the bill to our children and their unborn descendants And Republicans have historically done a poor job of combating this kind of useless, empty change.
There is one place to clean out the cancerous socialist poison that afflicts our government. That is in our Congress. With congressional term limitation.
In his book Breach of Trust, Dr. Tom Coburn, now U. S. Senator Coburn, wrote:
Of all the reforms the freshmen wanted to bring to Washington, I believed the setting of term limits was the most important. It was the soul of the Contract with America. Nothing would change the culture, and politics, of Washington more than replacing career politicians with citizen legislators. Political careerism, more than anything else had separated Washington from the people. Careerism perpetuated big government and was a constant corrupting force in the system.
All of which Citizens for Term Limits has been fighting for. Starting over a dozen years ago, we led the coalition that successfully lobbied the Louisiana Legislature in Baton Rouge to amend that state’s constitution to limit legislators’ terms. That’s right. These magnificent legislators in scandal-ridden Louisiana voted to limit their own terms, putting the good of their state ahead of their own careers.
Term limitation was a hugely popular issue in Louisiana then, and even more popular nationally today.
As Senator Coburn points out, careerism has been a constant corrupting force in our government. Most Democrats and too many Republicans rank careerism and their own selfish interests ahead of the good of the country.
Why can’t our Congress behave unselfishly, in the same manner as their Cajun Cousins a few years ago?
Isn’t it time to sort them out and find out who is who?
Can we not move philosophically closer to those wonderful Cajun Cousins so that they might become our Kissing Cousins?
And bring fundamental, meaningful, beneficial change to America?
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