Your humble Blog Goliard has come round to the opinion that the failure of the bailout package in Congress on Monday was a good thing. But even if Congress wound up doing the right thing, they did it almost by accident, and in most unseemly fashion. Their poll numbers are sure to be taking further drops.

Yet, as noted before, more than 90% of these Congresscritters are still set to roll to re-election next month. For an institution which more than 90% of the public rightly reviles to preserve that many of its members makes no sense. No, wait, that’s not strong enough. Try this: the re-election of any of these people—any of them—at this point is now officially obscene.

I urge you to not participate in this obscenity.

This Goliard still intends to vote for John McCain for President (if he can somehow avoid driving me completely crazy before Election Day); and he still very much hopes that by some miracle the Republicans can re-capture at least one house of Congress, preferably the Senate. But he shall not vote to return any incumbent member of Congress to office—not his Republican Senator, nor his Republican Congressman—no matter how much regard he may have for the man, or how little regard he may have for his opponent.

If there is a Democrat running for whom your Goliard may vote without having to go immediately to Confession afterwards, he will do so; if there is a Libertarian alternative, so much the better; if neither of these are true, he will simply not vote in that race.

My fellow citizens, please, for the love of God and our fair Democracy, whether you are a Democrat or Republican or Independent or Libertarian or Other, do not vote to return any incumbent to Congress. I don’t care who your Senators or Representative may be—just don’t do it. Defeat them all, and let God and their surprised successors sort it out from there.

Slay them all.

(Politically! Just politically!)

It’s the only way.