It's taken me a year or so of frustration, observing Congress consume most of their time with partisan bickering and posturing for TV. Then when they do pass some legislation, it usually doesn't take too much investigation to discover that one or another special interests were better served than the public.

I feel very much the same way as substantially more than 50% of the 300,000+ respondents who participated in a CNN poll a couple of weeks ago, rating the 111th Congress a resounding F (for failed).

I have been strongly for term limits and robust campaign finance reform. Congress will vote for neither. I've concluded that leaves it to the voters.

So what it boils down to is that if the American public simply refused to vote for any member currently incumbent in the Congress, we could achieve a 100% turnover of the House of Representatives and a 33% turnover of the Senate in next year's elections. To me, any new group elected could do better than the 435 members of Congress there now, many of whom have been in office for decades. Enough is enough.

Your question highlights precisely why about 96% of the Congress gets re-elected each election, leading to continued partisan bickering, the occasional passage of flawed legislation, and continued frustration on the part of the public. The vast majority of voters somehow seem to believe that "their" Congressman and Senators are OK--it's all the others in Congress who serve themselves before the public and get little or nothing done for the country. The only way to solve that problem is to simply vote out all the incumbents. That's why I intend the policy I mentioned in upcoming elections.

In the case of Congresswoman Brown-Waite, she will be seeking her fourth term in the 2010 elections. It's difficult to find any meaningful impact she has had either within the House or in representing the 5th District. What she has accomplished is the accumulation of the better part of a million dollars in campaign contributions from banks, investment banks and insurance companies. Somehow I suspect that all those moneyed interests have a greater interest in Mrs. Brown-Waite's votes in their behalf than they are in whatever she can do for the good of the country or the people of the 5th District. Having said that, I like some of the things she says she stands for: fix Medicare first, preserve the doctor patient relationship, and establish tort reform, all that in addition to her willingness to share the same health insurance plan as we will wind up with as the result of the planned reforms. But I simply can't square the circle of accomplishing meaningful changes in Congress without replacing all those that are currently serving with such ineffective, even destructive, results.

Yes, it is time for another change...a 100% change if it can be accomplished.