In response to
The 'Tea Party' Movement
Bill Wade
Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 1:18 PM
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The best thing the tea party movement could do is throw its weight behind a grassroots effort to get two constitutional amendments onto the state ballots:1) Term limits for members of Congress - no member to serve a total of more than 12 years total across both houses. That means 6 terms in the House, or 2 terms in the Senate, or 3 terms in the House followed by 1 term in the Senate.2) A balanced budget amendment with an exception only in the case of a declared war, or in the case of some other national emergency as confirmed by a two-thirds majority in both houses, said emergency to be reconfirmed each budget yearI wouldn't be opposed to an amendment capping government spending at a fixed percentage of GDP either, again with exceptions for declared wars or other national emergencies...