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Ha! I missed your lyric post Mike. Well done!

Ben, you make a valid point which often is ignored. Sadly, we get a new president every 8 years at least, but we rarely ever get a new congressman/woman. The rate of incumbent victory is higher in the US than it was in the Soviet Union. And that's a dirty little secret that both parties want you to ignore, so they throw all the light on the presidential race knowing either way, their power will remain in tact. In a way, you could say incumbency is worse than royalty being in charge. At least in the case of olds kings and queens, the people have 1 person to get rid of to change things. We're stuck with a lot of dead weight criminal element pretending to be long term Senators and Representatives. Term limits would solve that. We're supposed to be run by citizen politicians who go in and out of private work life rather than existing their whole lives in politics. But those in charge will never let us have that. And those with a long serving corrupt representative don't want to give up their sugar daddy/mama.

But in the longer term scheme of things.. this too shall pass.

Brian