And frankly, I am very opposed to term limits. I think each state should make that determination for themselves.
No one said we have to agree. And you are free to think anything you want regardless of its merits. Before Columbus, everyone else in the world thought the earth was flat.
Teddy Kennedy and Robert Byrd make laws every day that you and I have to live with. Their thoughts could not be farther apart from my own. Can anyone identify anything that either of these two have ever gotten right? Now the voters in their states send these two back like clock work and none of us who do not live in their states ever get to contradict the misguided constitutents of these two crack pots. And your children and grandchildren would have to live with their errors compounded, assuming you believe the US has a life after the bills for the boomers' Medicare and Social Security start coming due. What kind of life and retirement will your children have if the government actually attempts to force them to pay these huge unfunded liabilities? Part of the reason the boomers have not been able to save to support their own retirements is that they have been paying for their own parents' retirement. Upside down pyramids fall over. Ours will be no exception. South Dakotans are by and large conservative and only represent a tiny percentage of the population. Yet the one man they re-elect every year, is blocking a large part of the agenda that most of the viewers of this site would like to see enacted. And there are not a handful of Freepers that will ever have the chance to defeat Daschle. How much difference has Daschle's influence and power made to you personally and to your way of life?
Politicians in Washington have too much power. How many of you on this site would disagree with that statement? I would ask you how do you think they acquire power? One of the ways is by seniority. The longer they stay the more power they accumulate and the more they learn how to use it. Things get to be old adages because they are generally true. Have you heard the one about, "absolute power corrupts absolutely?"