Quote Originally Posted by cstone View Post
We have a way to limit politicians in their quest to hold power. This power is called elections. Representatives run every two years and Senators run every six years. IMO, far too many voters continue to choose the names they know rather than voting against incumbents.
Congress had an 11% approval rating in 2014, yet 96.4 percent of incumbents were re-elected. Clearly, we need better educated and motivated voters, or some sort of sunset mechanism to keep the disease in DC from festering.

I 100% agree on the commerce clause abuse. Thank Lincoln for that. He was a great man, and did many good things, but the expansion of Federal power during and immediately after the civil war was no one of them.