Tar and Feathers

Too Old To Work, Too Young To Retire writes:

The Framers of the Constitution never contemplated that anyone would want to, or be able to, make a career out of running for political office. Sadly, over the years power hungry morons have changed the rules so that it can be very lucrative to be an elected official. They've also changed the rules so that once elected, it's very difficult to be voted out of office.

A while back I proposed a solution:

As a Public Service, I propose what would be the 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the House of Representatives more than thrice, and no person who has held the office of Representative, or acted as Representative, for more than one year of a term to which some other person was elected Representative shall be elected to House of Representatives more than twice. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of Representative when this article becomes operative, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of Representative, or acting as Representative, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of Representative or acting as Representative during the remainder of such term.

Section 2. No person shall be elected to the Senate more than once, and no person who has held the office of Senator, or acted as Senator, for more than three years of a term to which some other person was elected Senator shall be elected to Senate. But this article shall not apply to any person holding the office of Senator when this article becomes operative, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of Senator, or acting as Senator, during the term within which this article becomes operative from holding the office of Senator or acting as Senator during the remainder of such term.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress.

You're welcome.

A little while ago, I offered another possible solution:

Good things some in threes, they say, so let me offer up a third alternative:


It's from Boston, even.