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I agree, the problem is campaign financing. Because it costs millions of dollars to run and win an election that means most politicians have to go to corporate interest and special interest groups for money. At that point they are in for a certain number of years (depending on their office) and they have to appease the donaters so they can win their next election. See the problem? For politicians, we have made job security and their well being contingient on selling out to corporate and special interest! This is why we need only publicly financed campaigns! If politicians were more dependant on their constituency than their contributers for job security then career politicians wouldn't be a problem, in fact I think they would be a blessing.
The deal with democracy in America is that it almost has to be a representative democracy. At that point we need "career politicians" to maintain elder statesman and specialist within politics. Some of our countries best people in Congress have been there for over a decade. It takes years to do things and make change in Congress and we need to realize that. We don't need great speakers or motivators. They turn out to be illusionists, convincing the public of what it needs instead of listening to the public tell them what it needs. What we need it doers who are more interested in the public will than the private sector and who don't value keeping their job over doing what is right. We have a few leaders like that now... we need more.
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"The courts that first rode the warhorse of virtual representation into battle on the res judicata front invested their steed with near-magical properties." ~27 F.3d 751
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