Pretty simple really. If you believe as I do elective offices are not career (lifelong) destinations. To that point, I would limit senators to 2 consecutive terms and representatives to 3 consecutive terms in the US Congress.
What about institutional knowledge, some may ask. Well, aren't we sending bright enough folks to represent us who can get up to speed? We are, aren't we?
Honestly, the term limits issue is secondary to my main gripe. I want to send elected officials out of office when they turn 68. All of them, at every level--municipal, county, state, and federal. Elected school officials, too.
Middle of the term? I don't care. What about all that life experience? I don't care. The expertise? I don't care. Folks my age and older, we had a good run. Full disclosure, I'll be 69 next month.
Just go home. Senators, for example...
Diane Feinstein 6/22/33
Chuck Grassly 9/17/33
Richard Shelby 5/6/34
Jim Inhofe 11/17/34
Patrick Leahy 3/31/40
Bernie Sanders 9/8/41
Mitch McConnell 2/20/42
Jim Risch 5/3/43
Ben Cardin 10/5/43
Angus King 3/31/44
Dick Durbin 11/21/44
Richard Blumenthal 2/13/46
Ed Markey 7/11/46
Tom Carper 1/23/47
But what about seniority? I don't care.
Jeanne Shaheen 1/28/47
Mitt Romney 3/12/47
Joe Manchin 8/24/47
Mazie Hirono 11/3/47
Ron Wyden 5/3/49
Elizabeth Warren 6/22/49
Jack Reed 11/12/49
Roy Blunt 1/10/50
Debbie Stabenow 4/29/50
Patty Murray 10/11/50
Chuck Shumer 11/23/50
John Boozman 12/10/50
Deb Fischer 3/1/51
Mike Crapo 5/20/51
This is age discrimination. I. Don't. Care.
Roger Wicker 7/5/51
John Kennedy 11/21/51
John Cornyn 2/2/52
John Hickenlooper 2/7/52
Marsha Blackburn 6/6/52
John Barrasso 7/1/52
Sherrod Brown 11/9/52
Rick Scott 12/1/52
Susan Collins 12/7/52
Shelley Moore Capito 11/26/53
Bob Menendez 1/1/54
Mike Braun 3/24/54
Jerry Moran 5/29/54
Time to pass the torch to folks in their 30s and 40s and 50s. The middle of the 21st century is rocketing toward us.
So go home. Stay home. Oh, and shut up.
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