Category: NetHappenings

Congressional Reform Act of 2011

Do you want term limits? Pass this on if you want to fix congress.

Congressional Reform Act of 2011
The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified!  Why?  Simple!  The people demanded it.  That was in 1971.
Before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.
It is simple to Fix Congress  . . .
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Lock and load take up your arms rhetoric of American politics

The way public and media figures have framed political participation with shooting gallery imagery is just as potentially lethal.

The “Lock and Load” Rhetoric of American Politics Isn’t Just a Metaphor
Marty Kaplan
I’m not saying that putting a bullseye on Arizona Democrat Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ congressional race – as Sarah Palin did – was an explicit or intentional invitation to violence.
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