Shocking story by "This is American Life." Nancy Pelosi attends 400 political fundraisers per year. Politicians of both parties spend untold amount of town raising money, planning to raise money or thinking about raising money. How much money do members of the house of representatives need. At 7:41 of this recording, you'll hear a Federal Representative from Ohio admitting that he needed to raise $10,000-15,000 PER DAY. This amounts to $2.5 M over two years. The story goes on and on, and amounts to a total corruption of our supposed democracy.

Fascinating article in Daily Kos. Here's some of Nixon's accomplishments (granted, that he had a different Congress):

1969 - Nixon enters peace negotiations with North Viet Nam 1970 - Nixon negotiates permanent deal with USSR not to use Cienfuegos (Cuba) for ballistic missile Submarines 1971 - Nixon increases arms sales and loans to Israel 1972 - Nixon enters into successful SALT talks with USSR 1973 - Nixon withdraws thousands of troops from VietNam, ends draft. 1973 - Nixon agrees to support Israel, begins airlift that allows Israel to counterattack. Nixon and the USSR negotiate a peace protecting Israel and ending the war.