The GOP Congress was almost as low quality as this current one. The past four years Bush has been doing a 'low quality' thing too and coasting through the second term without enough effort to check the various tides.

We'll see what happens. Like I mentioned in another post awhile back - the folks attracted to public office are not the sorts one really wants to see in public office. This applies universally to all parties and positions.

It's a subjective choice based upon one's own values and expectations. Picking the rose with the most fragrance and the least thorns, yet knowing one is probably going to get pricked no matter which one is chosen.