When all the ‘experienced’ pols are gone, won’t the staffs and lobbyists run Congress?
A. There is no question that a relatively ‘permanent’ staff does embody the skills and institutional memory required for any Congressional office to operate smoothly. However, opposing these factors there is the real power that the type of people who run for, and win the office, bring to that office. The new incumbent can hire and fire, and demand that the staff produce the bills and other results that he is determined to accomplish during his tenure, so that he can win reelection. He is very unlikely to accept significant procedures and policy positions pushed on him that are at odds with his own agenda. Q. Term limits is not democratic. It prevents voters from choosing to reelect who they want. A. Is a 99.3% reelection rate democratic? Remember that this number covers all 535 members of Congress. Doesn’t your own commonsense tell you that something must be out-of-whack? Is it even remotely conceivable that all the politicians in the Congress deserve unlimited reelection? Remember, fo
