"Soon to be?" You should watch more C-SPAN. Congress has been a 3-ring circus for years. Having Franken in there might be an improvement as far as entertainment value goes. Congress is useless anyway, it punts hot issues to administrative agencies or the Courts, and pretty much has its legislation written for it by the administrative agencies and the administration. Congressmen are to lawmaking what news-readers are to journalism ... nothing more than the faces that read the scripts put in front of them.
Oh I agree that the government is already a laughing stock (tragically so). I guess I was just giving the executive branch the benefit of the doubt as not being one of the 3 rings...yet.