Liberal comic Bill Maher wants to have a one-term limit for the president, but extend the term to six years from four years.
“Second inaugurals always seem kind of pointless and anticlimactic. We should probably just get rid of them. Actually, why not get rid of second terms altogether?” the host of HBO’s “Real Time” blogged Tuesday.
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He said that presidents spend much of their first term campaigning for the second and that by the time they get reelected, they’re about to become a lame duck.
“Everybody agrees they have maybe two years to get anything accomplished, and then people stop returning their calls,” Maher blogged, adding later: “This is why there are so many second-term scandals: boredom.”
