[sgtbono2002]

And the great expense of keeping them.

Their salaries are a pittance compared to the upkeep.

Secretary's, staff , offices, trips around the world,their Capitol Hill Restaurant, their Barber shop. Their Library of Congress free pass to tie up researchers. It goes on and on. These people cost a lot of money to keep in the way they have grown acustomed to being kept.

[do the dhue]

These people cost a lot of money to keep in the way they have grown accustomed to being kept.

And with all that cost, all we get is somebody who tells us what we want to hear and then does what the people who paid him want him/her to do.