{"id":5580,"date":"2010-06-15T09:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T16:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/?p=5580"},"modified":"2010-06-15T09:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T16:15:59","slug":"scientist-discovers-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/scientist-discovers-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Discovers Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Paul Jacob\/Citizens in Charge)<\/em> – A puzzled professor at Rice University, who also sits on a commission investigating whether term limits should be scuttled, offers evidence that people like term limits. Moreover, it seems people are especially prone to like them during times when the career politicians have gone out of their way to destroy the economy and all things wonderful and beautiful.<\/p>\n

The popularity of term limits is old news. Term limit measures pass every time voters get a chance to vote for them. Many people who blog and write letters to the editor and attend Tea Party rallies regularly demand term limits \u2014 even as pols and pundits regularly announce, in tones of increasing desperation, that the term limits movement has expired already, and anyway we-already-have-term-limits-they\u2019re-called-elections.<\/p>\n

Bob Stein\u2019s research pertains to Houston. His 1998 survey of registered voters showed 22 percent of respondents supporting city term limits \u201cvery strongly.\u201d By 2009, 41 percent supported term limits \u201cvery strongly.\u201d The number who opposed term limits \u201cvery strongly\u201d rose from only 7 percent to 12.<\/p>\n

The Houston Chronicle also reports that in a 2002 article, the professor observed that Americans support term limits \u201cfor elected officials at all levels of government.\u201d But he professed not to understand the reason for this enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

Somehow it doesn\u2019t occur to the professor that Americans don\u2019t want to be ruled by an entrenched, unmoving, heedless oligarchy that represents only itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Paul Jacob\/Citizens in Charge) – A puzzled professor at Rice University, who also sits on a commission investigating whether term limits should be scuttled, offers evidence that people like term limits. Moreover, it seems people are especially prone to like them during times when the career politicians have gone out of their way to destroy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5581,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5580\/revisions\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nevadanewsandviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}