All of these issues sound great. It's just sad that the Executive Branch cannot delilver on almost every one of them.

Congress writes the laws, controls the checkbook, and holds the hearings. The Executive Branch may have some element of "leadership," but in the end gets its orders from Congress. It may not seem like it to listen to the candidates and the spin doctors, but that's how the Constitution has it.

I've read a lot of complaints on this board about energy policy, border security, immigration, the Iraq War (which Congress keeps funding - and they have access to all of the classified information the public never sees) and many other matters. While Congress as a whole gets slammed, individual congresspersons continue being re-elected so often they become permanent fixtures in many neighborhoods in DC, Maryland and Virginia - and visit their districts with just enough pork-barrel funding to keep the votes coming.

If you REALLY want change, there are already term limits on the Presidency. This is just the list of the Members of the House who have served ten consecutive terms or longer:
27 Terms, Consecutive - John Dingell, MI
22 Terms, Consecutive - John Conyers Jr., MI
20 Terms, Consecutive - David Obey, WI
19 Terms, Consecutive - Charles B. Rangel, NY; C.W. Bill Young, FL
18 Terms, Consecutive - Ralph Regula, OH; Fortney “Pete” Stark, CA; Don Young, AK; John P. Murtha, PA
17 Terms, Consecutive - George Miller, CA; James L. Oberstar, MN; Henry Waxman, CA; Edward J. Markey, MA
16 Terms, Consecutive - Norman Dicks, WA; Dale Kildee, MI; Nick Rahall, WV; Ike Skelton, MO
15 Terms Consecutive Jerry Lewis, CA; James Sensenbrenner Jr., WI; Thomas Petri, WI
14 Terms Consecutive David Dreier, CA; Barney Frank, MA; Ralph Hall, TX; Duncan Hunter, CA; Harold Rogers, KY; Christopher Smith, NJ ; Frank Wolf, VA; Steny Hoyer, MD
13 Terms, Consecutive Howard Berman, CA; Rick Boucher, VA; Dan Burton, IN; Marcy Kaptur, OH; Sander Levin, MI; Alan Mollohan, WV ; Solomon Ortiz, TX; John Spratt, Jr., SC; Edolphus Towns, NY; Gary Ackerman, NY; James Saxton, NJ
12 Terms Consecutive Joe Barton, TX; Howard Coble, NC; Bart Gordon, TN; Paul Kanjorski, PA; Peter Visclosky, IN
11 Terms, Consecutive Peter DeFazio, OR; Elton Gallegly, CA; Wally Herger, CA; John Lewis, GA; Louise Slaughter, NY; Lamar Smith, TX; Fred Upton, MI; Nancy Pelosi, CA; Christopher Shays, CT; Jim McCrery, LA; Jerry Costello, IL; Frank Pallone Jr., NJ; John Duncan Jr., TN
10 Terms, Consecutive Eliot Engel, NY; Nita Lowey, NY; Jim McDermott, WA; Michael McNulty, NY; Richard Neal, MA; Donald Payne, NJ; Dana Rohrabacher, CA; Cliff Stearns, FL; John Tanner, TN; James Walsh, NY; Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, FL;Gary “Gene” Taylor, MS; José Serrano, NY; Robert Andrews, NJ

Above are 65 reasons Congress gets nothing done, yet these folk have become institutions on a two-year recurring contract. That's fabulous job security for them, and they have in their ranks the biggest whiners and complainers in the world - all of whom have made a 20-to-54 year career campaigning for "change."

Three big issues: 1) when will Congress "change?" 2) when will Congress "change?" and 3) I think you can guess that one....