The losses that will be useful are all in state governments. Losses in Congress will just be replaced by more instant gopes. Until there are single term term limits on both sides of Congress but primarily on the House the corruption will continue and not 10% of incoming Conservatives and Patriots will remain that way past the first day in their seats. More than one term makes congressmen very valuable to lobbyists and foreign interests. Single terms will not end corruption but will cause it to decline to a much lower level and more new Congressmen will choose to forgo it as being caught is much more onerous a thought in comparison with the possible rewards. It is just not worth the big bucks to only be able to temporarily rent a Congressman for two years in comparison with being able to lease him for many years.
Behold the tremendous power that Democrats have frittered away — from January 2009 through the aftermath of Election Day — thanks to Obama and his ideas:
•Democrats surrendered the White House to political neophyte Donald J. Trump.
•US Senate seats slipped from 55 to 46, down 16 percent.
•US House seats fell from 256 to 194, down 24 percent.
•Democrats ran the Senate and House in 2009. Next year, they will control neither.
•Governorships slid from 28 to 16, down 43 percent.
•State legislatures (both chambers) plunged from 27 to 14, down 48 percent
•Trifectas (states with Democrat governors and both legislative chambers) cratered from 17 to 6, down 65 percent.
In terms of boosting his party’s state-level strength, Obama is the worst president since World War II. Reagan is the best.
Democrats can chant the soothing lie that this wholesale, multi-level rejection of their party stems from “structural racism,” the legacy of Jim Crow, the immortal tentacles of slavery, or whatever other analgesic excuse they can scrounge up. The same nation that they claim cannot outgrow its bigotry somehow elected and then re-elected Obama, quite comfortably.
But consider, that a new Congressman, knowing he's only got one term to do it in, is just as likely to sell it for all he can get down front. Term limits just shuffle the problem from one place to another.
The Founding Fathers had it right from the start: The House members face the voters every two years, and THERE'S your term limits, right there. Keep the good ones in, turn the rascals out, how it spozed to work.