term limits are a crap idea. they end up giving power to unelected staffers and lobbyists. also they are undemocratic. amendment limiting presidential terms has been really harmful. prevents popular democrats from running. if there were no term limits, obama would be pres now.
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Obviously rich people can and do look for loopholes to get around this and have ever since George Washington built his career on throwing parties at his giant plantation house But it's not clear that "not having lobbyists" would make that any better
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To be clear, I'm specifically criticizing the juxtaposition Noah was making, saying if the options really came down to perpetual gerontocracy or perpetual lobbyist power I'd much rather have the latter and curb its worst excesses
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Right, it is not bribery, it is intimidation. Campaign cash is primarily given to challengers and used to fund attack ads.http://congressionalresearch.org/BruberyCitations.html …
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