Gov. Rick Scott thinks so little of those working in Congress that he can’t wait to go join them.
And he’s betting that championing term limits is his ticket to the U.S. Senate.
Scott’s TV campaign ads feature the governor at a wipe board saying that most of America wants term limits for Congress and he’s just the man to make it happen.
Scott’s not just running against Sen. Bill Nelson. He’s also running against every long-serving member of the gridlocked Congress that so often disappoints us.
But if elected, how would Scott convince his career-politician Republican Party leaders – let alone the Democrats – to get behind term limits? Maybe the answer is hidden on the other side of the governor’s wipe board.
Polls show term limits are certainly popular with voters, but these are the same voters who keep sending the same people back to Washington.
Aside from the political difficulty of actually imposing term limits on Congress, to do so would mean admitting that voters can’t be trusted to oversee our democracy.
Instead, voters should get better at using the term limits they can already impose every time they cast a ballot. They can start in November, by either sending Nelson home after three terms in the Senate or by setting Scott’s Senate term limit at zero.
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