What bothered me was a statement he made about what was foremost in his mind for the near future. Not the economy. Not jobs. Not the House Ethics Committee. No, what he said was most important to him was his campaign for re-election. He has served 20 terms in the House of Representatives, that's forty years in the same job, and all he can think about for the next three months is getting re-elected.
He, and 392 of his colleagues in the House of Representatives, will spend the next 82 days campaigning for office. If nothing else can convince us of the need for term limits, that should.
But you and I well know that ain't gonna happen. Even if I were to convince the state of Georgia to wipe the slate clean and start the 112th Congress with thirteen new Congressmen and to vote out our two Senators when their terms are up, there are 49 other states that would need convincing as well. The last time we were able to get most of the states to agree on one subject was in 1992 when 45 states ratified the 27th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of the Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives. That particular amendment took over 200 years to go from its initial submission to ratification.
