End the Tyranny

Total sense from Kos:"

"Time to end the tyranny of the long-serving chairmanships

Republicans have instituted term limits for their chairman, meaning they can't monopolize top committees for decades and giving other members of their caucus a chance to hold leadership positions. Democrats, on the other hand, work on a seniority system that rewards the longest-serving members and converts them into corrupt, arrogant and unaccountable autocrats.

There's no better example of this dynamic in action than Sen. Max Baucus and his Senate Finance Committee, where he and three of his best buddies are working to overrule the will of the entire House and virtually the entire Democratic caucus in the Senate while vacuuming up huge dollars from his lobbyist friends. But he doesn't give a shit, because there's nothing anyone else can do about it.

Except that some in the Democratic caucus are tiring of this arrangement."

This is a great post, with more good stuff in it, and I strongly encourage you to read the whole thing.

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