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Equally culpable? I don't think so. I think it's pretty safe to say about half of our "republican" legislators are really democrat lite, more commonly known as RINOs. Seriously, can anybody look me in the eye and give a plausible explanation why, for example, Liz Chaney or Adam Kissinger is allowed the "republican" label? The guys you listed T. are of the same ilk, maybe a little better camouflaged. That said: There are also some damn good people in the republican party, but they are sorely outnumbered. We need term limits alright, in America they are also called elections. If one thinks he/she is a conservative and he/she is voting for a loser like Liz Chaney he/she are part of the problem. What's really laughable is people who vote like this and then call for term limits.... All I can say is, seriously dude?

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Oldgiy52,

So you want a pissing match here on how our govt representatives have screwed us over, time and time again?

Really dude? Our entire system needs to be cleansed, and term limits will remove the few, consistent patriotic American politicians out of a position they are desperately needed in, so thats just not going to work out.

There are standout, true patriots who love our country, and work for the American people, but their numbers are miniscule. Okay, I'll give you that, and those few standouts (Jim Jordan, Ron Johnson, Rand Paul, Chip Roy, Mike Braun, and a few others ) are exempted from the equally culpable comment, but OVERALL, the republican party doesn't coalese, and stand together for the will, for the benefit of the American people.

Instead of term limits, a written, single page social contract between politicians, and the people of America needs to be drawn up where they are only paid to be required to produce tangible results, benevolent and beneficiary, to Americans, never receiving a single dime in compensation, nor being allowed to be financially supported by any special intereat group, otherwise immediatrly finding themselves out of their positions, and back into Society, or prison if need be.

All dealings must be out in the open, and capable of public scrutiny before any bills submitted and or passed, either through referendum, or collective oversight.

End all omnibus legislation NOW.

Follow Trumps lead: for every new law enacted, two laws are to be nullified.

Every republican politician RIGHT NOW, should be doing hand-stands, spitting fireworks, screaming profanities on how our country is being systematically destroyed by democratic party rule, and yet, most remain silent, other than the chosen few who are actively doing what they were elected to do, feeding the cult machine driving, plowing our country into financial, chaotic ruin.

If they are NOT standing up against the machine, they are part and parcel, a cog of the machine, therefore they ARE culpable in this autrocity against the people of America.

Silence is no different than active participation, and you know this

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OK, why didn't you say that in the first place? And yes, doing nothing is still making a choice.

However, we (that is most of us) need to, as voters, relearn how it is that our bread gets buttered and where it is that the gov't gets the money they throw around so freely these days and what happens when people become dependent on that money. Not only people individually, but states as well because if voters understood the effects of free gov't money they wouldn't vote for people who want to just give it away. While republicans are not necessarily the answer to our problems, democrats are most certainly the cause of most of our problems

If I had my way we'd have a system where only people with real skin in the game are allowed to vote. Welfare leeches need not apply.

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