Well it seems that Congress has overplayed their hand in the whole debt ceiling, defund Obamacare, Ted Cruz is insane, shut down the government fracas and the American people are hopping mad.
Indeed, the NBC News/WSJ poll asked whether voters would be willing to
check a box on the ballot that would defeat everyone in Congress,
including their own representatives. Sixty percent of those surveyed
were willing to play 52-card pickup and start all over again with 535
new members of Congress.
I agree that snap elections every X-amount of years should be built into the system. That would get grognards like Daniel Inouye or Strom Thruman out of the Senate in some way other than their death. Maybe they should set up a rule that every 8 years all Senate and House seats are vacated. No winners can run in consecutive elections. A Congressman can run again but only after the guy that took the job after him has completed his 8 year term for a Senator or two 4 year terms for the House.
I think this idea would get new blood circulating in and out of the Congress like what happens for the President every 8 years. This also frees Congressmen from constantly beating the bushes for money for their endless re-election campaigns. You would actually see Congressmen fighting lobbyists, defying the Tea Party, spurning Grover Norquist, and refusing George Soros's money etc.
Maybe some of the money will drain out of politics you only have that guy for 8 years. He can cash a fat cats check and then vote his conscious and not have to worry about going back to that fat cat for money for re-election.
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