Watch this clip and around the 6 minute mark you'll hear the comment that,"what we need is a suicide congress that will cut the spending and then get voted out."
There-in lies the point that politicians are not concerned with doing the right thing, they are concerned with staying in office. Professional politicians, I wonder if the early framers were of the same mind?
http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2010/04/12/n_iousa_national_debt_higher.cnnmoney/