The Washington Monthly has a fantastic article on the DC power couple phenomenon. It's great insight into to the people who run our country, the culture that they have created in our nation's capitol, and how that culture functions as dead weight on our democracy.
I wonder if they would continue to thrive if we reformed our political system, beginning with term limits and public financing of political campaigns.
By the way, I support public financing because the only thing I hate more than paying taxes to fund political campaigns is paying taxes to pay for the favors politicians owe their corporate contributors. And I support term limits because I can't think of a politician who has served in Congress longer than 18 years who I'd truly miss.
© Jed Lewison