Congress has forgotten where their responsibilities lie. Their job is to protect and better this nation through legislation, but members from all political affiliations have ignored that responsibility and are working only towards their own political gain while the country suffers.
"They are not legislators because they eschew the normal processes of legislation. They are not statesmen because they are willing to sacrifice the governing institutions of our nation. They are not leaders because they cower to a fanatical minority. They have chosen instead to get their way through extortion -- holding the United States hostage to their weapons of mass economic destruction. What, then, are they? Would it be unfair to consider them traitors?" - Robert Reich
No. It would not be unfair.