Disaffection with Congress may fail to bring real change - Financial Times - MSNBC.com

No shit, Sherlock!

The time is coming when the war won't be so far away!

Disaffection with Congress may fail to bring real change - Financial Times - MSNBC.com:

Tired but still preppy-looking Ned Lamont late on Tuesday shouted a familiar question to his supporters, who had gathered to celebrate the millionaire's dramatic victory over Joe Lieberman in the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut. 'How many lobbyists are there in Washington for every member of Congress?' he yelled. 'Sixty-three,' came back the collective reply.

Mr Lamont's victory owed much to Connecticut Democrats' outrage over Mr Lieberman's unflinching support for President George W.?Bush's war in Iraq. But it also owed something to a broader distaste among Americans for politics as usual. Moral alarm over the backroom political culture of America's capital goes back much further even than James Stewart's 1930s film Mr Smith Goes to Washington. Like the popular Hollywood classic, anti-Washington