The Tea Party Terrorists really have taken over the GOP.
Not content with showing that they can do "second amendment solutions" or threaten to bring down the World economy because they can, (again), the Bronze age Mutant Ninja Turtle who leads Republicants in the Senate now believes Americans are far too stupid for "gimmicks" such as elections.
The time has come for a balanced budget amendment that forces Washington to balance its books. If these debt negotiations have convinced us of anything, it’s that we can’t leave it to politicians in Washington to make the difficult decisions that they need to get our fiscal house in order. The balanced budget amendment will do that for them. Now is the moment. No more games. No more gimmicks. The Constitution must be amended to keep the government in check. We’ve tried persuasion. We’ve tried negotiations. We’re tried elections. Nothing has worked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nPCYT8A96g&feature=player_embeddedActually one thing worked. The budgets of President Obama actually reduced the deficit. The budgets of Bill Clinton had a surplus that went in to paying off the national debt. Elections do work if people do not listen to Rupert Murdoch.