It's a pendulum. In 1994 The GOP took the House and Senate. In 2006 they got punted out. In 2010, they will probably get the House back and may be the Senate. In 2012, who knows what will happen. In one or two more elections the people will realize that the republicans who they voted in to fix the mess that the dems made in 80's/90's are the same reps that they kicked out in 2006 for making making a mess. Then they will kick the reps out again and give the dems a chance to screw it up again after the republicans have screwed it up for another 2 or 4 years.
Do you see a pattern. The people who think the republicans who will be voted in tomorrow will do a good job running this country are as stupid as the people who voted in the current crop of crooks thinking that they would fix all the problems.