I was visiting Slublog's place (who I'm sure most of the people pityclicking my blog know), and dropped a comment, which got me thinking about things.  So I'm cribbing some of my own comment, and expanding on it.  Slublog says he's against term limits on principle, while I agree that we shouldn't set laws ordering it, I will say I think a self imposed term limit/voter imposed one would be good. It would be for the best I think.  This shamnesty nonsense is proof enough for me.  

Voters should condition themselves to constantly look for better candidates, and be ready to boot anyone that has been sitting in DC long enough that they're growing roots and getting sloppy.  

Lindsey Graham and a lack of a clear successor is a textbook example of this.  There should be two or three good potential candidates ready to step in at all times. Trent Lott is another good example, people have gotten too comfortable with that tool, and it would be near impossible to dislodge him.  That's not a good position to be in, and a bad mindset to have.

 

Something is definitely fishy with this amnesty nonsense.  The fact that there are not only people who are defiant to the people they elected, but there are people who realize they are essentially giving up their political careers, they recognize that its political poison, and probably are personally opposed to it, yet are going to play along.

I started thinking about this a bit ago, I wonder how many of these people have been promised lobbying jobs should they get kicked out of office.  If that is the case and their internal motivator, then they truly have no reason to change their vote other than the humiliation of losing their seat.

 Of course, if this is the case, than essentially they are being bribed, and if they are being bribed, then the American people are truly being betrayed in a profound way.

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