I like that:

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Friedrich Dominicus Posted: Fri, Aug 10 2012 10:23 AM

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http://www.ortneronline.at/?p=18340#comment-159905

See the video: I like this stuff for being elegible soo much.  There's just one problem, what is with thos having voted against debt-over-all?

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Bogart replied on Fri, Aug 10 2012 10:37 AM

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Wrong for a myriad of reasons, here are 3:

1. Who is "YOU".  If "YOU" pass a law?  Neither you, Buffet nor I can pass a law.  And even if I could, the law is determined by 9 people in black dresses working in a stone building in Washington DC.  So even if YOU could make any law for any reason, these 9 people can simply interpret it in any way they see fit OR refuse to interpret it and leave that up to the enforcement bureaucracy that could in this case interpret it in any way it sees fit.

2. YOU will have to do a lot more than just pass a law limiting current congress folks.  If you get rid of one person you still have not gotten rid of their political party.  So they will simply put another person up for election.  Then when the limitation on elections goes up the original person will simply run again.

3.  (Subset of 1).  Congress is the only organization that can pass a law or enact a budget (Assuming the 9 people in 1 allow them to do so and don't team up with the Executive to do something like arrest the entire Congress.) why would Congress willingly limit its own power or that of the other two branches?  The people in Congress have every incentive NOT to do so.  And putting a Congress in prison is not without precedent in the USA: Lincoln arrested the entire legislature of the State of Maryland.

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Friedrich Dominicus replied on Sat, Aug 11 2012 12:34 AM

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You are right, but I nevertheless like the "elegance". You may not agree, that's your  business. I would appreciate getting rid of any member of the Bundestag on this way.