zefrendylia
05-08-2007, 05:10 PM
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I didn't know an old guy could have so much fire! I'd vote for him if keeping Hillary out wasn't my main concern.
http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20070504_maverick_candidate_mike_gravel/
"....
We’ll have term limits. I believe in term limits. I think the president should only be six years. None of this reelection stuff. And in the Senate, 12 years. And in the House, four-year terms, three terms and you’re out. And then with the judiciary, 12 years and you’re out. Up or out. That means 12 years for the Supreme Court of the United States. When you appoint people to a powerful position for life, understand: Power is a corrupting agent. It corrupts everybody to some degree. It’s a corrupting agent. And the worst kind of power is the corruption it does intellectually to people. And so you put nine people on the Supreme Court and they live there for life ... you don’t think that they’re not intellectually corrupted? These are human beings.
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Right now our national constituency is around 130 million Americans registered to vote, and so decisions will be made by the majority of that. You won’t have a turnout of that all the time, but just stop and think. If you had 50 million people voting on issues, on policy issues—they’re not going to get involved with the day-to-day operation; it’s the policy issues. And so what happens. ... Where are you going to get the best decision? The majority of 50 million people or the majority of 535 people and nine people in black robes? You’re going to get the best decisions from the people every time. If the people had the law, the national initiative, the federal ballot initiative that I’m putting forth, which goes around the Congress, the people have to vote for this directly. If the people had that, we’d get out of Iraq in the next 60 days. Because the people—you can tell by the polls—they want out. What’s wrong with the leadership that can’t comply with the will of the majority?"
What's wrong indeed??? :clap:
I didn't know an old guy could have so much fire! I'd vote for him if keeping Hillary out wasn't my main concern.
http://www.truthdig.com/interview/item/20070504_maverick_candidate_mike_gravel/
"....
We’ll have term limits. I believe in term limits. I think the president should only be six years. None of this reelection stuff. And in the Senate, 12 years. And in the House, four-year terms, three terms and you’re out. And then with the judiciary, 12 years and you’re out. Up or out. That means 12 years for the Supreme Court of the United States. When you appoint people to a powerful position for life, understand: Power is a corrupting agent. It corrupts everybody to some degree. It’s a corrupting agent. And the worst kind of power is the corruption it does intellectually to people. And so you put nine people on the Supreme Court and they live there for life ... you don’t think that they’re not intellectually corrupted? These are human beings.
...
Right now our national constituency is around 130 million Americans registered to vote, and so decisions will be made by the majority of that. You won’t have a turnout of that all the time, but just stop and think. If you had 50 million people voting on issues, on policy issues—they’re not going to get involved with the day-to-day operation; it’s the policy issues. And so what happens. ... Where are you going to get the best decision? The majority of 50 million people or the majority of 535 people and nine people in black robes? You’re going to get the best decisions from the people every time. If the people had the law, the national initiative, the federal ballot initiative that I’m putting forth, which goes around the Congress, the people have to vote for this directly. If the people had that, we’d get out of Iraq in the next 60 days. Because the people—you can tell by the polls—they want out. What’s wrong with the leadership that can’t comply with the will of the majority?"
What's wrong indeed??? :clap: