If the Opposite of Pro is Con...

Here's a space killer. Welcome to my blog, blah blah blah. Since honestly the only people who are going to read this are the two people who have a link to it, I'll skip those lame "This is my first post!! OMG LOL!!!" entries.

I was reading an article today that was talking about how old our senate is. Old People Run the Country! (credit: msnbc.com). They say that our average senator is 60 years old. The average representative? 55! Take a look at a picture of Sen. Byrd (By his own account a former KKK leader). The man looks like a decrepid Emperor Palpatine, clocking in at 88 years old, and has been a senator for over 40 years.

I think that this is a much larger problem than Congress being "a generation behind". These old guys have no fear of being defeated in an election. Their biggest fear is whether or not they are forced to resign because someone finds out about their sexual orientation or property selling schemes. That gives them free reign to do just about anything else they want. Why do they continue to be voted in? Are Americans just going through the motions?

By your 5th term in Congress you would have to be deeply embedded with special interest groups who by now have contributed so many millions of dollars that they might have well just paid your salary.

I believe that we need to have a younger government that isn't so set in their ways. I propose that we give Congressmen the same sort of limitations we give the presidency. If we limited congressmen to two terms, that would give them 12 years. This would make it so that every few years we would get at least part of our congress a fresh look, maybe some of them would still be old, but we wouldn't have these dynasties with their behind the shadows loyalties stretching back to before we even had equal rights.

Not only would that be conducive to bringing in fresh ideas and fresh faces, but it would also give congressmen a little more incentive to move faster, so they could get things done before they were out for good.