fed-up voters meet the enemy and it is...them?

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SHUTDOWN_DISCONTENTED_VOTERS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-10-19-08-37-36

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hey, fed-up Americans, here's a scary thought after the dispiriting spectacle of the government shutdown: You're the ones who sent these members of Congress to Washington, and they really are a reflection of you.

For all the complaints about Washington, it was American groupthink that produced divided government in the past two elections and a Congress that has been tied in knots lately.

John Adams, who would become the country's second president, wrote in 1776 that legislators "should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large."

More than 200 years later, members of the current entangled House "are probably a very accurate reflection of how their constituents feel," says Ross Baker, a Rutgers University political scientist.

Not that people are ready to take ownership of the failings of their representatives.