The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
Breaking News From 1915
“Amelia Earhart in Chicago”–headline, Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 23
Bottom Stories of the Day
- “Russia, Ukraine Not Seeking Changes to Black Sea Fleet Deal”–headline, For-UA.com, Oct. 23
- “Giant Crane Is Leaving St. Louis for Kansas City Project”–headline, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct. 22
- “Iran Fails to Endorse U.N. Nuclear Deal”–headline, Reuters, Oct. 23
Next Year in Jerusalem
South Carolina’s Sen. Jim DeMint is taking up the most lost of Washington’s lost causes, as he explains in a podcast helpfully transcribed by NetRightNation.com:
Fifteen years ago, Republicans–who had been out of power in Congress for forty years–made term limits a centerpiece of their “Contract with America” agenda.
The term limits constitutional amendment ultimately failed, in part because so many new reform-minded congressmen imposed term limits on themselves. After six or eight years, these members voluntarily went home, leaving behind those Republicans and Democrats who fully intended to make a career inside the beltway.
The fact is, party doesn’t matter when it comes to reform. If you want to change the policies, you have to change the process.
That’s why in the next few weeks I will introduce a new constitutional amendment to limit members of the House of Representatives to three terms (which is six years), and members of the Senate to two terms (which is twelve years).
Will the amendment include a provision stipulating that any senator who reaches the limit automatically becomes president? Because that’s the only way that two-thirds of them would ever vote for it.
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