OMG! Stuart Stevens just now on MSNOW left everyone gasping

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48. The no lifetime positions in the federal Government sounds good on paper

in practice however it's fantasy. That requires a constitutional amendment. Politics is transactional so you not getting 2/3rds of the congress and 3/4ths of the States to ratify it, Politicians benefiting from it aren't going to willing vote to give that up and neither will the voters that support them.

Taking pardon power away from Presidents would also require constitutional amendment

If we ever had that type of political will then we might as well go for the whole 9 yards and eliminate the electoral college too.


Raising the cap on social security tax is probably the only thing in your list of issues that's actually doable without a constitutional amendment. We need to do what we can to actually help people not waste our time trying to do the impossible.