Isn't it about time to start pushing the discussion on Term Limits again? The trouble we have seems always to begin with the "senior" actors primarily in the Senate. At the risk of losing an occasional good one, and I'm hard pressed to come up with more than a couple names, a term definite would solve a lot of ills.
Either a constitutional amendment for term limits, or a return by amendment to the past by senators being appointed by the states. There has to be a way to begin devolving the Federal governments size and scope.