And what are we going to do about this? Nothing. We are complacent; and they know it.
They voted on a raise this week, because the majority of them were re-elected, last month. They know that, when they run, in 2010, the majority of the voters will forget what they did, in Dec. 2008. Some of the congressmen, who supported the raise, should lose their primaries, in Mar. or Apr. 2010. This year, four congressmen (three Republicans and a Democrat) ran for re-election and lost their primaries. Two of the three Republicans lost because they were too liberal.