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Huntsman Calls For Term Limits

January 7, 2012

Despite the political faux pas of speaking mandarin, Jon Huntsman was the only candidate at tonight’s GOP debate that revived the concept of term limits as set forth in the 1994 Republican Contract With America.  However, like most of the substantive issues raised by the non-front runners, the ABC panel did not follow this up [...]

Tagged as: GOP NH GOP Debate, huntsman speaks mandarin at gop debate, jon Huntsman, Media Bias, term limits

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Occupy Wall Street Proposed Agenda #3: Term Limits Necessary To Rid System Of Career Politicians

November 23, 2011

The idea of citizen legislator is fundamental to our democracy, but has been slowly circumvented since the early 1980′s.  Many worthy candidates have been dissuaded from running because of the emergence of one issue PAC groups.  The result has been a disproportionate amount of true believers, on both the right and left, with the more [...]

Tagged as: Loss of Moderates In Government & Resulting Gridlock, Occupy Wall Street, PAC Groups, Political Movements and necessity to put words into action, proposed agenda for occupy wall street, Reformed Liberal

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Obama Losing Base Could Spell Defeat In 2012?

May 13, 2011

Despite his jump in the polls from the killing of Osama bin Laden, President Obama continues to struggle to keep his  base  in tow.  His handling of the BP crisis has affected his standing among environmentalists, the lackluster recovery sees continued 9% unemployment and further decline in the housing market that worries the middle class, cutbacks in social programs [...]

Tagged as: 2012 Elections, Black Coalition, cornell west, NY Times/CBS Poll, Political Parties & 2012 Election, Tea Party and 2012 Elections, Upcoming Elections and Republicans, Upcoming Elections and The Democrats

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Enough Blame To Go Around…The Case For An Independents’ Party

September 29, 2010

Although the Tea Party has “party” in its’ title, it is a movement within the Republican Party, and not exactly a third party.  Similar to the Anti-War movement that grew out of dissatisfaction of the decisions being made by a Democratic President, it’s main raison d’être is to protest the policies of the current administration. The [...]

Tagged as: Beyond Gridlock, Call for Independent Party, Coalition To Govern, GOP, Independent Party, Obama, Reformed Liberal, Second Revolution, special interests and govenment, Tea Party Movement, Third Party

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To Become A Real Player In Reform, Tea Party Should Make Term Limits Its’ First Order Of Business

January 12, 2010

The Ohio Valley Tea Party has announced its’ formation as a political action committee in time for  the upcoming election year.  This will enable the group to raise money and support candidates for office.  Although it’s still in the development stage, the potential of becoming a political party is there.  To grow this grassroots movement into [...]

Tagged as: Campaign Reform, citizen legislators, fiscal responsibility by government, grassroots campaign, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform, Lawyers and Government, lobbyists, Pelosi, Republican Contract With America, special interests, term limits, The Tea Party, Third Party, U.S. Congress

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