>I am with you on that, up to a point. It seems like the longer someone is in Congress the more deeply embedded they become with lobbyists and others inside the Beltway. OTOH I think strict term limits would have the unintended consequence of the good ones being tossed out along with the tired dregs.
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>My point is that, the lobger someone is involved in politics, the more removed he or she becomes from the way things are in the real world. Who is going to be the judge of who is "an old tired dreg" and who is not? The only way to enforce term limits is to enforce them unconditionally. If someone has been a great senator for the maximum number of terms, let them run for the house of representatives....

Well, I disagree with you there, as per the Tiger Woods analogy. Why should any organization force everyone to leave, even the best among them, according to a fixed definition? I know there are mandatory retirement ages but that is typically going to be after a much longer time than we are talking about here.

While in favor of some form of term limits, I don't have a recipe for how to grant exceptions. Maybe allow some % to stay on past their term limit and let the parties themselves decide who?