The term limits movement goes too far in some ways ant not go far enough in other ways. Not far enough in that it allows incumbents to run for re-election or for another office. Too far in that it doesn’t allow people with experience to run again after they are out of office. The rule should be:

• No running for office while holding office.

That is, you are a politician when running for office, but a statesman while in office. Might also throw in:

• No raising money for others while holding office.

And, of course, no raising money for self, including campaign debts.

Fresh ideas, and new energy are a must if this country is going to face down the many challenges it faces these days. It’s become painfully obvious to me, and to most of the American public, that our present Senate and Congress is not up to the challenges we now face. They are spending far to much of their time just trying to stay in power, raise obscene amounts of money, and score political points at the expense of the good of the country, then doing the work of the people.

And it’s just not that easy for the American public to vote the incumbents out of office these days. Most voters never even know who the challengers are, due to the massive amounts of money the incumbents are able to raise, and the exposure they get. Voting against the incumbent, without even knowing who the challenger is, is not exactly a smart thing to do IMO.

“Absolute power, absolutely corrupts”...

The sense I get from this article is “we have no worldview, no philosophy, and no ideas, but we are for term limits because it sounds good without accomplishing anything.”

And why four terms for house and two for senate? That seems arbitrary. Why not one term for each?