Two Terms Too Many

Today I mailed in my ballot. Hopefully I navigated through the smoke and mirrors well enough to choose from the best of a poor lot. Whether yea or nay, some will win, some will lose. Measures that fail might reappear in some future election, reworded and dressed in a new suit. Or not. Issues come and go.

You know what else I wish would come and go? Congresspersons! This is a new rant for me. My usual cyclical rant is about jury duty. Every year when my name comes up I gripe and moan that they still haven't implemented a plan for professional jurors. Then, once I'm off the hook, I forget all about it until the next year.

But Congress! They never go away, except when they should be in session. (Which isn't often. They've only been in session 92 days this year, none of them lately.) Once they're through hitting us up for election funding and a vote, they'll scurry off to do nothing... if we're lucky. If they do anything, it will involve screwing over the middle-income people in favor of the way-too-rich pseudo-people (aka corporations).

If there's one nice thing we can do for our grandchildren, it's to pass a two-term limit. I don't think we can pull it off with the current cast of characters in charge, but we could at least try to 'grandfather out' this 'congressperson-for-life' stalemate.

Speaking of grandfathering, Congress isn't the only entity that needs to have an expiration date. We're looking at you, Senate and the Supreme Court! People making laws and decisions about technology should not be too old and confused to understand it and use it.

So I'm all for getting the great-great grandfathers "grandfathered" out of D.C. at some future point. However, I'll try not to rant too much about it. I don't want to sound like one of those grumpy old people who obscess on one issue. I might be mistaken for a congressperson!