Actually this could be the California or many other state Senates, or the US Senate for that matter.
Our political process is broken. We keep electing a__holes from both parties.
We used to have statesmen. Now we have incompetent politicians who award themselves lavish salaries and benefits.
They are overpaid buffoons (Think Barney Frank) who decry the salaries paid to CEOs who have to meet a payroll and make money for the stockholders.
What do our politicians (of both parties) do? They spend spend spend. They tax tax tax. They borrow borrow borrow. What do we do? We keep electing them.