lizzie
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The further down the chain you go, the more counterproductive limiting the power of a politician becomes. It's one thing to limit a President, because his powers are strong to begin with and he has no particular constituency to keep him in check. Your Representative, on the other hand, has a much more immediate link with you; by overly neutralizing his authority, you end up hurting yourself.
The bolded assumes that we want something from government, and there are a segment of us who do not. I don't vote for my reps based on my wanting something. I vote for whomever I think will try to minimize the role of government in my life.