It's take a lot of work and self control to hold back from letting lose with a bad joke that the best option would be to have all of Congress (House and Senate) laid waste, but seeing the newest threads complaining about the possibility of the so-called "nuclear" option for the Senate, I'm reminded that the best option for the Senate (and the House also) would be the implementation of hard and fast term limits.
Personally, I'd love to see limits of no more than 18 consecutive years (3 current Senate terms) for any elected office in the country -- applicable to all levels. 18 years -- for most people approximately 1/4 of an average life -- should be enough to accomplish everything you might ever wish to accomplish. I'd apply the same standard to all elected offices, and even do away with the current limits we have on the office of President of the United States. By allowing Presidents to serve more than the current 8 years, we'd help get rid of the "lame duck" syndrome that attacks and befalls many of our Presidents as they enter their second terms and get closer to the second half of those second terms. I expect that most citizens would be smart enough to dump a candidate that was truly doing a bad job as they go on through additional terms, even though currently our citizens could that for their Senators and Representatives and very few ever exercise the priviledge.
Still, putting limits on the time that any person could stay in any one office would mean that they'd hopefully be forced to try harder to please their customers (us), in the hopes they they could move on to the next higher office. At 18 years, Representatives would have the opportunity to serve through several House terms while trying a run at the Senate above them, and the Senate seats would open up along the way thanks to the term limits there also.
I suppose, thinking about it, that this stance makes me somewhat hypocritical as I think of my reply to Draginol's article supporting Inheritance taxes. In effect, I'm supporting a similar concept by saying I want to force people out of office along the way, but again, the thought is that in doing so, our politicians would have to try harder for us, and would be less likely to spend their time arguing over the jobs they are supposed to be doing.
I can dream a little, I guess.
