Roland Gutierrez: “yesterday, in a move that demonstrates the gulf between the rhetoric about the Contract With America and the reality of…”

“yesterday, in a move that demonstrates the gulf between the rhetoric about the Contract With America and the reality of what it means for Americans, the majority ducked a vote on term limits. And they did it for a simple reason. They know they are not serious about it. For all of their talk about citizen legislators, their term limit bill is really about one thing--protecting their power. So I say to the Republicans: Stop hustling the American people. If what you really want is term limits and not limitless headlines, send us a real bill. If letting the American people decide every 2 years who should represent them doesn't sit too well with Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Armey and Mr. McCollum--three term limit supporters who have now been citizen legislators for a total of 44 years--then I say give us a real term limits bill. Make it retroactive. If you want the headlines, then clean out your desks and head for home the day we pass the bill. When the citizen legislators who have been here for decades show me they are that serious about term limits, then I am with you.”