Our military is stronger than it has been anytime since WWII, thanks to President Bush. If John Kerry had been elected there is no telling what language we would be speaking.
The Congress makes many decisions that benefit our country and our quality of life we probably don't realize. I know you have heard of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the California Aqueduct. Those were congressional programs, and there are many such examples where the actions of our congress and governement work hard to improve our quality of life and public safety.
They just get blamed for to much bad PR with all the natrual disasters that have happened over the past year the public has to have someone to blame, and unfortunately the President and our government are working in a very difficult period of our history.
Things will get better and we will pull out of this mess.
I haven't seen much evidence of this. I've seen posturing critters, who put themselves on "investigating committees", to investigate everything except what they are being paid to do.
I wish to heck I could speak to someone about getting them a pay cut. They really don't deserve what we pay them.