No Longer Haunted by This Specter

In light of yesterday's election results, my friend Mike LaFaive sends me this wonderful quotation from George Mason:

Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken, where he must participate in their burdens.

Of course, even an out-of-work Arlen Specter (R D-PA) isn't likely to "participate" in any proportional way in the burdens that his 30-year career in the U.S. Senate...