The only way to fix the problem:
* Term limits for elected officials
* A ban on employment as lobbyists and similar positions after leaving office
The Founders designed the government to work with people from all walks of life entering government for short periods, then returning to their main careers in life.
They did not envision a professional political class with a sense of entitlement and using the power of incumbency to stay in office term after term.
The advantage of incumbency mist be eliminated.
That is the major contributor to the problem of having people like Robert Byrd, John McCain, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi squatting in Washington their entire adult lives.
We need a limit of one term per lifetime as a congressman OR senator and one term as president.
A limit of one 4 year term for congressman OR senator.
One term as one or the other but not both per lifetime
A limit of one 6 year term for president.
Congressmen and senators who wish to run for president may do so but first must resign their current position prior to announcing their candidacy.
A ban on employment as a lobbyist or with a government contractor or supplier, or any similar position for all elected officials for ten years after leaving office.
A similar ten 10 year ban on employment as a lobbyist or with a government contractor or supplier, or any similar position for all military officers and high level government employees, especially cabinet members and legislature staff.
I don’t know about a 6 year term for president. Think about all the evil Obama accomplished in just a few years. I think 4 years is fine. It would be two years less misery with the llkes of the current occupant and two years is two years...: )