Go read....

Daily Kos, and scroll to the entry by Hunter, "The Not So Great Generation." Probably one of the most lucid explanations of what the hell is happening in Washington I've seen yet, and why term limits, which sound like a good idea to a lot of people when blown at them at high speed in a sound bite, really aren't a good idea at all, and how sending people who have contempt for our system of government to run it has led to this.