Term Limits and Pandering Photo-Ops

You may have seen this meme floating around the internet. I saw it on the wall of a Facebook friend of mine. He shared the post from someone else (who I think was the creator). My friend added, "Let's put in term limits for every representative and senator with a heaping side of wait period before a politician can become a lobbyist."

The original post had the text "This may upset you but..."

So, I want to talk about this. Term limits and pandering photo-ops.

Originally, I wrote this post as a Facebook reply, so I'll edit it to be more Blog-friendly. Please read and reply here or on the original post. I approve comments, so yours might not show immediately.

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TLDR: the Brookings article linked here is an excellent argument against congressional term limits and has most of my points within it. Here begins the original reply that I wrote: