Ted Cruz Runs For Reelection On Platform That He Shouldn't Be Allowed To Hold Office - Ring of Fire

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Ted Cruz is running for reelection to the Senate on a very unique platform: Vote for Cruz so that he can kick himself out of office. Cruz is currently fundraising off of his plan to limit US Senators to just 2 terms in office, and the money he's raising is being used to elect him to a third term in office. Irony aside, Cruz's plan is actually not that bad, and would eliminate some problems that the country faces with career politicians. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Republican Senator Ted Cruz, has a very interesting sales pitch for the voters in the state of Texas, and that sales pitch is essentially vote for me so that you can kick me out of office in the future. Ted Cruz is right now fundraising for his third Senate campaign on the idea that we need term limits for members of Congress. Back in January, Ted Cruz introduced, uh, uh, basically a constitutional amendment that would limit members of the Senate to two terms, no more than 12 years, and members of the house would be able to serve six years or three terms in office. I support this like a hundred percent. The one thing I am in full agreement on with Ted Cruz is term limits for the House and Senate. And I think kind of based on some of the news that's come out this week, I, I, I think that's a fairly smart thing to support.

We, we shouldn't have people in Congress that have been there since Kurt Cobain just formed Nirvana, right? I mean, that's, that's a little, little too long that you've been there, folks. Maybe it's time to go away, but it's an interesting sales pitch, isn't it? Cruz, in an email to supporters wrote this. It's finally time. We do something about the entrenched politicians in Washington. I want to know what you think about my constitutional amendment to impose term limits on senators and house members while also saying, give me money so that I can serve a third term, which under my new law would actually be illegal for me to do, but, but Cruz has a built-in, you know, safety switch in his legislation here as constitutional amendment and the safety switch is that the term limits only apply after it gets passed, so you don't get credit for time served.

So if Ted Cruz were successful with this, his third term would technically become his first term and he could still run again. So he could still be one of those so-called entrenched politicians that he claims to hate so much. It's just a weird, wacky thing. Again, Ted, I support you on this, but you gotta take that safety switch out. You can say, listen, if you're in the Senate and you still have four years on your term, that actually counts as your term. You don't get to run again. If you're in the house, you get one more election after this and then you're term limited. That's it. That's what it should be. Don't say that. Okay? Term limits start now, and then from here on, like, no, be like, listen, your current term counts. You can get one more after this. That's what you should do. I mean, honestly, you should be

Like, like term limits are effective immediately. If you've served your time, you get the hell out. We're gonna have a hell of a lot more elections coming up in the future. That's what should happen. But we have career politicians in Washington DC on both sides, like a hundred percent. You can't deny that we got some Democrats that have been there way too long and have forgotten how to connect with average American people. They work for special interests in Washington, DC That's what happens when people stay there for a bit too long. That's what happens to most people. I think we know an obvious exception to that rule, but for the most part, these folks forgot what it's like to be a normal person long ago.