Thursday, January 12, 2006

Modest Proposal

Here's a proposed change to the Constitution.

My suggestion was for an amendment to the Constitution: Members of the House of Representatives shall be chosen each two years by lot from among the adult citizens of each congressional district.

Pros: No House elections or primaries, with the attendant posturing. The seniority system would be effectively dead in the House.

Cons: Congresscritters would be unfamiliar with the intricacies of House rules, so you wouldn't have senior members able to bring home pork to their constutuents.

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