It’s the attempt of our perverse politicians to justify their existence in a cynical sort of ‘see, you need us here or things would go all apocalyptic up in this place’. They evidently don’t realize that we’re smart enough to know that their stupidity and petty smallness is precisely what brought us to the precipice in the first place.
Frankly, I’m so sick to death of these elected officials that I’m willing to see the country plunge off the edge into the blackness if their bodies are the first ones over and the rest of us get to land on them and thus survive quite nicely.
Why, in the name of all that is holy, did people send these imbeciles back to Washington? Why? It makes no sense. Away with Congress- we need a Parliamentary system. We need to literally Re-Form the government and anyone presently in office needs to be forbidden to serve as anything more important than crossing guard.
They (politicians) are the cause of every evil in this Country.
Zwinglius Redivivus 
Crossing guards are important! How about the mean, villain-type dog catcher from old cartoons?
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“we need a Parliamentary system” – as an Australian living under a parliamentary system may I suggest a change in the system won’t fix anything. You have idiot voters in the USA, I have idiot voters in Australia, and the result is idiots are elected in both countries with both countries, for slightly different reasons, headed towards a fiscal cliff
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