THAT I'd support. That amendment was originally put into place by those who did not *appreciate* FDR being in office for four consecutive terms. And the republicans were significantly pissed at themselves for not having that repealed prior to Reagan taking office.
Personally, I'd be in favor of rewriting it to prevent consecutive terms myself. However, the only problem with that is the fact that you wind up with that nasty little lame duck session EVERY presidency.
But if we're not allowing more than two consecutive terms now anyway, it's almost every time after all.
HOWEVER if we did make it prevention of consecutive terms, but no eventual term limits, it would prevent each administration from taking too much time out of the presidency in order to campaign for him/herself, and at the same time curtail the number of times an outgoing president does something truly STUPID on the way out of office. If someone thinks that s/he can get elected again, no matter how small the likelihood, then that person is less likely to do something that will piss off the populace. Any politician in a lame duck period knows s/he has NOTHING TO LOSE. And they have in the past done some truly stupid things on the way out, because they have nothing to lose by doing them.
Kind of like a man on death row killing another inmate. After all, what harm is it going to do him? What are they gonna do, kill him? (what are they gonna do, not re-elect him? *smirk*)
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Personally, I'd be in favor of rewriting it to prevent consecutive terms myself. However, the only problem with that is the fact that you wind up with that nasty little lame duck session EVERY presidency.
But if we're not allowing more than two consecutive terms now anyway, it's almost every time after all.
HOWEVER if we did make it prevention of consecutive terms, but no eventual term limits, it would prevent each administration from taking too much time out of the presidency in order to campaign for him/herself, and at the same time curtail the number of times an outgoing president does something truly STUPID on the way out of office. If someone thinks that s/he can get elected again, no matter how small the likelihood, then that person is less likely to do something that will piss off the populace. Any politician in a lame duck period knows s/he has NOTHING TO LOSE. And they have in the past done some truly stupid things on the way out, because they have nothing to lose by doing them.
Kind of like a man on death row killing another inmate. After all, what harm is it going to do him? What are they gonna do, kill him? (what are they gonna do, not re-elect him? *smirk*)