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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Mr. Palau who wrote (150371)6/3/2001 12:22:12 PM
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I wouldn't expect anything less than the party I favor to be optimistic about electing new senators to replace retiring ones, and the Republicans in the states where a Dominici or Thurmond may retire should be diligently planning recruitment and campaigns also.

But what is generally encouraging-regardless of whose party is gaining or losing influence-is the term-limiting of committee chairmanships before the senator has a chance to become nothing more than another employee of the agency his committee appropriates money for. I understand that the Democrats do not have term limits for their committee chairmen. Perhaps they will re-think that now that it's more than academic.

But what a GRAND idea!! Why don't we apply term limits to being a senator in general. No more praying over 98-year-olds to live another 2 years. No more senators like Jeffords, being propped up by party machinery for 20 years, then dealing themselves to the highest bidder. No more conservatives like Hatch going soft in the head from too much service, and no more Kennedy "dynasties".

Liberals are more likely to be career politicians than conservatives, who usually find better uses for their time in a dynamic society than robbing the productive members of society to buy votes from the unproductive. The best and brightest of conservatives only occasionally make a career of politics, while liberals find little value for themselves outside of that business. That contributes to the general result that we get unsatisfactory and expensive government through laws written by those who don't spend any of their lives in the real world that they exercise power over. The 18th century British peerage/monarchical system we originally broke away from was certainly no worse.

Whether Democrats or Republicans control the Senate in the future is a question for the 2002 and 2004 elections, as it should be. I certainly will not miss Dominici or any of the others who may be driven away from far-too-long careers because their leverage for pork has been reduced...
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