It seems like being in the Congress or the Senate must be an awesome gig.
Is it power? Ego? Money (like insider tips)? All 3?
I simply don't get it. You are in a situation where 1/2 of your "co-workers" dislike you and 40%+ of your constituents dislike you. You are a part of government that gets a 10% approval rating. Sitting in on dreadful committees with 25 people on it that don't accomplish anything. Sitting in the big chamber hearing about all sorts of nonsense.
Then you get to go back to your home state and have coffee with people arguing about the price of coffee (inflation) or gas prices, hearing stories about their neighbor's cousin's house getting broken into and when are you going to fix crime?
You get to listen to people bitch, moan, complain and bore the sh*t out of you every day,
Then you have to go around raising money so you can do it all again for several more years?
Ugh.