However a comment I once read somewhere long forgotten changed my opinion. Enacting term limits would result in politicians 'waiting out' a rival's term hoping for a more favorable congress. Then newly elected officials would 'wait out' those politicians and the cycle would continue indefinitely.
Now I believe the best way to rein in the power of individual congressmen in to increase the number of congressmen. The line of thinking is that by increasing the number it would require a greater consensus to achieve legislation while simultaneously making it prohibitively more expensive for corporate lobbyists to buy the necessary number of votes to pass favorable legislation.
I propose we start by increasing the number of representatives to 573 using first the Wyoming Rule and after the next census to 695 using the Cube root rule. Of course, this is not such a simple fix and would require Americans to vote for parties outside the Democrat-Republican dichotomy but it would be a start.
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