I agree.
Until congress changes the corruption will only increase as the money is concentrated into fewer and fewer hands with each passing generation.
Republicans AND Democrats are currently wholly owned subsidiaries of Wall Street.
I don't believe it's possible change the way congress does business by "choosing" between Republican OR Democrat in the voting booth.
If 100 incumbents (or more) are FLUSHED from DC in November 2012 and replaced by Greens and Libertarians, Wall Street and the richest 5% of Americans and the Pentagon will face the same nightmare they've been inflicting upon the rest of us for the last 30 years.
IMHO, Republicans AND Democrats have outlived their usefulness to this Republic, and that Republic will vanish from the page of time unless Dems AND Reps disappear first.
Yes we can, we are the ones who hire and fire them. If they don't keep the campaign promises we fire them and get new ones who will. When they start to see that the old way of doing things will get them fired,it will start to change things. We will see how the 80new ones do, it has already started a few new things, like cutting spending, which never even would have been debated at all had they not been hired by the voters.
It is going to take maybe 2 or 3 more elections in order for things to start changing but I think that we will be able to do so.