A new poll says that the number of American voters who want to, essentially, "clean house" of all the politicians is at a twenty year high.
Here's a link to the minutiae of the moment.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/poll-suggests-2012-change-power-washington-131541841.html
Even those in our ranks who pay little or no attention to the day in/day out trials and tribulations of the body politic would have to bury their heads in some pretty deep sand to not be feeling the overwhelming sense that enough may, in fact, be enough.
Don't count on it, kids.
Do "the American people" have every right to be pissed off at being forced to watch the same episode of "Benny Hill Goes To Washington" ad nauseumm?
Ya, you betcha.
Is is inevitable that the instinctive response to said slapstickery is an urge to re-do the entire cast list of the aforementioned sitcom?
Fer sure.
And is it just as inevitable that it's gonna happen?
Fuggetaboudit.
Because regardless of the obvious merits of a house(and senate)cleaning, there is no getting past one inescapable quality inherent in human beings.
The pain of being betrayed, misused, abused and/or mistreated by our elected officials is similar, in one critical way, to the pain of giving birth.
It is soon forgotten.
Otherwise, it would be one kid per customer and mama would adopt a permanent "not tonight, I've got a headache" headache.
And we might actually remember to hold the offending slapstickers accountable when the curtain on the voting booth shuts behind us.
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