What else can you name that has gone up that much? Probably not even gasoline. You have to ask why. The only conclusion I come to is, the federal government has grown bigger and bigger and has taken on more and more of the states' job. Government has become everything to everybody, and it was never meant to be.

I like him, but he's not getting the job done. Anybody who has been there that long would grow complacent and develop a feeling of immunity from the voters. The fact is, we keep sending people back to Washington year after year. I don't know how we expect anything to change.

We have a longtime incumbent who's well-embedded. My problem is, we've got a lot of problems in our culture, and nobody in Congress does anything about it.