How to Increase the Power of Special Interests
Simplistic, Feel-Good Stupidity as Posted on Facebook This Facebook sets me off. It's pathetically simplistic. And supremely stupid. How has the panacea of term limits worked for, say..., California? The state legislature is at least as partisan and divided as Congress. Special interest-written bills pass routinely, and long-term needs of the state would not even be mentioned if it wasn't for the long-lived, political hack and four-term governor, Jerry Brown. Term limits have destroyed the ability for legislators of both parties to get to know each other, to learn what really matters to people on the other side [...]