{"id":36313,"date":"2018-08-27T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36313"},"modified":"2018-08-07T09:44:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T13:44:41","slug":"qotd-the-trouble-with-term-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/08\/27\/qotd-the-trouble-with-term-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The trouble with term limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I used to be a big supporter of term limits, but I think the evidence at this point is that they actually empowered lobbyists and activist groups, both because politicians going back to the &#8220;real world&#8221; needed somewhere to work after they left office, and because the politicians were too naive to recognize when they were being taken for a ride by a special interest. The longer I stay in Washington, the more skeptical I am of any silver bullet &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, commenting on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/meganjmcardle\/posts\/680195682144639?comment_id=680334655464075&#038;reply_comment_id=680387552125452&#038;comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Facebook<\/em><\/a>, 2016-11-11.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be a big supporter of term limits, but I think the evidence at this point is that they actually empowered lobbyists and activist groups, both because politicians going back to the &#8220;real world&#8221; needed somewhere to work after they left office, and because the politicians were too naive to recognize when they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41,13],"tags":[363,766,985],"class_list":["post-36313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-corruption","tag-democracy","tag-washingtondc"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9rH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36314,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36313\/revisions\/36314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}