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| 2.5 Billion Dollars, One Suspicious Vehicle, and a Pimp- on the Trail of the Ultra-Rich HijackingAmerican Politics - By Kenneth P. Vogel |
I rarely take on the topic of election finance laws and term limitations because I am rather torn on the matter. In concept it makes sense to set reasonable limits on both, but I would not like to rid ourselves of, or financially hamper good people who are good for politics just to place a limit on the bad ones. When good and bad start to look alike, even this argument falls flat. As for term limits, especially the presidency, it is impossible to master any elected office in one term and impossible to be effective in a lame duck second term. Thanks to big money, what was once two uniquely individual matters of political concern (term limits and finance reform) have conspired to become different sides of the same coin.
Big money has now
taken over both matters for all of us by dictating who runs for office, how long they get to stay there if they win and what they say while in office.
