Dummies would definitely do a lot less damage.
The problem with legislators is not that they don’t work hard enough, but that they work too hard!
Do we really need more laws?
Every new law is at its core a restriction of some freedom. I would be quite happy to pay them their full salary and have them work only one month out of the year.
I think we should make it much more difficult to pass new laws, and easy to repeal old ones.