Comments on: Government by gridlock in Michigan http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/government-by-gridlock-in-michigan/ Dig Michigan! Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:55:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: CJ http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/government-by-gridlock-in-michigan/comment-page-1/#comment-25332 CJ Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:48:53 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/government-by-gridlock-in-michigan/#comment-25332 Term limits need to be put in place for the Nations Senator's...3 and you're out! Fat cats like Levin and Kennedy need to go so fresh ideas can be put in place. Term limits need to be put in place for the Nations Senator's...3 and you're out! Fat cats like Levin and Kennedy need to go so fresh ideas can be put in place.

]]> By: farlane http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/government-by-gridlock-in-michigan/comment-page-1/#comment-18442 farlane Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:41:20 +0000 http://www.absolutemichigan.com/dig/michigan/government-by-gridlock-in-michigan/#comment-18442 Yesterday Jack talked with <a href="http://jackshow.blogs.com/jack/2007/04/interview_marjo.html" rel="nofollow">Wayne State Professor Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson, who has been studying term limits</a>. She identifies four unintended consequences: increased partisanship, short clock, increased political ambition and stronger ties to special interests who have become a source of information and guidance for the less knowledgeable term-limited legislators. In his <a href="http://jackshow.blogs.com/jack/2007/04/essay_term_limi.html" rel="nofollow">essay about term limits and the role they play in our ineffective government</a> he writes: <blockquote>By the way -- we forgot something when we enacted term limits. We had term limits to begin with -- the fitting and proper kind. We’ve had them since the country was founded. We’ve used them to get rid of many a politician, from President to precinct delegate. There is a special name for them, too. They are called elections. </blockquote> Yesterday Jack talked with Wayne State Professor Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson, who has been studying term limits. She identifies four unintended consequences: increased partisanship, short clock, increased political ambition and stronger ties to special interests who have become a source of information and guidance for the less knowledgeable term-limited legislators.

In his essay about term limits and the role they play in our ineffective government he writes:

By the way -- we forgot something when we enacted term limits. We had term limits to begin with -- the fitting and proper kind.

We’ve had them since the country was founded. We’ve used them to get rid of many a politician, from President to precinct delegate. There is a special name for them, too.

They are called elections.

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