Irene–  I have a different take on congress.   Yes, there is plenty God-complex on both sides of the aisle, but Progressivism is essentially the embodiment of the God-complex.  Please hear me out.   It is the Left that claims to have THE master plan for managing the ideal economy via ever-increasing ‘fair’ regulation (control).   Genuine conservatism–what Obama called ‘economic Darwinism’–is based on the belief that the market is far too complex and dynamic to micro-manage from Washington.   As Hartford illustrates, natural selection just works.  It’s odd that the side who’s most ridiculed for being anti-science is the one that’s picked up on the simple idea that allowing individuals and companies to fail (temporarely) is the best path to a more robust economic gene pool.  We don’t need more Left-Right compromise in Washington.  We need Washington to compromise its bureaucratic grip on the economy, education, state government, and us.