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Back to the future -- or something like that.
The last time Americans got wound up about the assorted misfeasances and incompetencies of the U.S. Congress, the national conversation opened itself to the possibility of term limits for the members. That's to say, no member could serve more than "X" number of consecutive terms. On completing that sacrosanct number, the member would remove from his office all photos, plaques and testaments to his indispensability. He would suddenly become dispensable -- another way of saying human.
This was in the early '90s, when incrusted Democrats had a choke hold on the...
Time for Term Limits
To paraphrase George Bernard Shaw 'Democracies give people the leaders the deserve'.