I don't think it's actually self serving at all. I'd be fed up too after years of dealing with the blockage he's facing day in and day out. I'm getting a migraine just imagining the frustration.

I do think that term limits would help. What a lot of people don't realize is that the Congress and Senate do most of the work of actually running the country and it has gotten LUDICROUSLY COMPLEX as more and more laws build up around which legislation has to be written.

For instance, in another op-ed piece on CNN a fellow pointed out that the reason that 5 billion in monies to improve home insulation in America still hasn't gone anywhere is that thousands of bureaucrats need to make changes in 3000 separate districts to wage regulations in order to satisfy a law to preserve high union wages written in 1831.

Now, that law likely made sense (to someone anyway) when it was writting but I doubt anyone back then forsaw a country of 300 million and all that comes with it.

The point is that term limits mean that legislation that gets written won't be written, or even well understood, by lawmakers - who just won't have the expertise to do it well. Instead it will get written by special interest groups and lobbiests and fed to them. This happens now but it will get even worse when they don't even really know what they're voting for any longer.

Term limits are a good idea, but with them must also come a dramatic reduction in the deadwood of government or the term limit will just make everything worse.

I think we should start with SEVERE limits on campaign spending. Not only donated, but personal.

This is the age of the internet, of TV, of Youtube. 20 million shouldn't be necessary to get your message out anymore. What about actually walking around your district and meeting your voters? That's actually still done here in Canada believe it or not! What about posting your planks on Youtube?

Reduce the impact of funds on campaigns and you will get more honest government because those people are NOT beholden to anyone for funds.

As to 'free speech' corporations are not people. And even people's free speech must be limited by slander and libel laws.

The system is a mess and needs a complete re-build.