Since when have politicians kept their word after an election has passed?
They, the politicians, enjoy an incestuous relationship inside the beltway. Once there they know, not believe but KNOW, that they have 18 months to do what they please to whomever they please before it becomes time to spew platitudes they have no intention of following.
Social Security, Illegal immigration, finical responsibility, ethics, and — well the total list would lock up the system servers.
Sorry, but less the electorate changes politicians more frequently than they change the diapers of new born children we will continue to have the “best government that money can buy”.
Why should they? They're almost never held accountable. Consider John McCain. He puts on his "Mr. Reaganite Conservative" suit once every six years. Then, after reelection, he does everything short of caucusing with the Dems. And yet how many times has he gotten away with this duplicity?