Originally Posted by DogJuiceMan

Jobs as a politician don't attract the intelligent, morally righteous, or upright, instead they attract the scoundrel, the liar, the thief, the idiot ,the backstabber, the treasonous, the defiler, and the demagogue.

In terms of congress, we are lucky if they all get in each others way and can't pass anything. This is by design, a government limited and weak, produces a free populace.

Political seats attract the person who would sell you out for money and pretend they are doing you a favor, trading in the country's potential for short term gains, for keeping their seat, for staining the cloth of liberty, forever wars, and for waste beyond all reasonable measure.