I wish one of the demands of the tea bag protesters will eventually include term limits for everyone in Congress. I see absolutely no reason why anyone in Congress should serve more than two terms. Period. If that’s the law for the President, I don’t see why it shouldn’t be the law for Congress as well. The current system we have is causing many of the problems we have today in Congress. It’s no wonder some of the representatives mentioned in this article could care less about what the “grass roots” wants in their district. To them the only people that matter are the lobbyists and the rich donors with money. Everybody else can be bought off with pork spending or promises they will never keep. But if these same representatives know that they can only serve two terms in Congress, you will have fewer of the Ted Kennedy’s or John Kerry’s or Robert Byrd’s who think they can hold onto their seats like popes. When you’re in Congress as long as those jerks, “Serving in Congress” is less about constituents and mostly about getting re-elected (and how and from who to get the money to do that). But if these same people know that they only have two terms to accomplish anything, they will either attempt to accomplish something of substance while they’re there or they will promote an agenda that is at least popular with their own party as a whole (and not just a few rich donors). At least they will be doing something, rather than just taking up space and voting the way their party leaders tell them to. The only way term limits will become a reality is if there is a vast cry for it from the people, because it certainly won’t come from the members of Congress.
