Maybe the President should just do an end run and amend the Constitution to do away with the Senate! Or term limits at the least. These people get in and it's a job for life: Byrd, Kennedy, Dodd, Biden and so on (there have been Republicans of this ilk too like Strom Thurmond). Hell, most of them don't even treat it as a job - witness Kerry's missing almost every vote for a year, and Voinovich admitting he missed the Bolton hearings.
Maybe we the people should wake up. But that's not likely.