Speaker Nancy Pelosi will soon bang the gavel, ending what is absolutely the worst Congress in the history of the country. No US Congress ever has so clearly failed to uphold its basic responsibilities while also completely governing against the will of the people with what it has done. It is no surprise that voters could hand the Republicans a gain of 60 more seats in November as their judgment of the performance of the current Democrat-controlled Congress.

Most Americans know the most basic task of managing their own affairs is the act of formulating a budget for their own income and expenses and trying to live within that plan. The most basic responsibility of the Congress as well as among its most important tasks each year is to pass a federal budget. The current Congress, the 111 th Congress, is the first in decades to fail to pass a federal budget. This failure is perhaps the most embarrassing failure of this Congress.

Many will remember how, back in 2006, Pelosi and the Democrats campaigned to gain control of Congress by promising “the most ethical Congress” in history while railing against whey called a “culture of corruption” in the then Republican-dominated Congress. Pelosi herself pledged to “drain the swamp” of congressional corruption. Despite this characterization, when Republicans found their own members to have had ethical lapses, they were strongly urged to step down. Mark Foley, Bob Livingston, and other Republicans caught in scandals quickly resigned. Yet when Democrats have been caught in scandal, they hang on as long as they can and their party leadership stands with them even when it becomes clear they are guilty. After New Orleans Congressman William Jefferson was caught in a bribery scandal, with $70,000 of “cold” cash found in his freezer, he was allowed to remain in Congress until his own constituents voted him out of office. To this day Pelosi and the Democrats are standing by Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel with their ethical lapses. The House Ethics Committee, comprised of equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans, is divided on the Waters and Rangel cases because Democrats refuse to view the evidence and even consider voting to convict their own of ethical violations. This defense of blatant corruption is hardly “draining the swamp.”

In the face of wide public opposition, this Congress passed a federal takeover of health care that will cost more than a trillion dollars in deficit spending. Pelosi and the majority cobbled together with some of the most obscene and corrupt vote trading and deal making, ignored the public’s wishes and passed ObamaCare on a very narrow majority vote. The final passage of ObamaCare was accomplished without a single Republican vote.

The brazen health care takeover vote came after passage of cap and trade, the TARP bank bailout, the banking regulations bill, the so-called stimulus bill and several other job killing and big spending government bills. This Congress has done absolutely nothing to work for economic policies that will spur private section job creation as a time when most view that as the highest priority of government policy. In addition, this Congress refused to pass immigration policy to protect the borders and stem the inflow of illegal immigrants. Our soft-on-the-borders liberal immigration policy simply imports more unemployment at time when unemployment among Americans is officially reported at almost 10 percent but believed by many economist to be closer to 15 percent. While more than 450,000 new jobless claims are filed each week, this Congress has done nothing to address illegal immigration and the increased unemployment it creates.

This Congress is about to adjourn without voting to extend tax rates of 2001 from the Bush tax cut. This Congress wasted months passing health care legislation the public bitterly opposes but couldn’t spare a few days to agree on renewing or extending the Bush tax cuts. Then Democrats played politics with the issue, claiming they would extend only those for the “middle class” without extending the ones they say are “for the rich.” They only pulled this stunt so they could play class warfare and accuse the Republicans only promoting “tax cuts for the rich.” In fact, 95 percent of what they call tax cut for the “rich” are actually tax cuts for small businesses. Raising taxes, which is what failure to extend the 2001 rates means, on small business is the worst possible economic policy during this jobless so-called recovery. Rather than enact responsible economics policy, the Democrats prefer to play politics and think they have an issue to use against Republicans. The old class warfare demagoguery isn’t working anymore and Democrats are in for a rude awakening on Election Day when the voters hold them accountable for failure to stop a coming tax increase.

I have no doubt this has been the worst Congress ever. It is among the most corrupt and ranks highest among those sessions of Congress in which the majority so brazenly governed against the will of the people. The voters are going to fire this liberal Democrat Congress in landslide fashion next month. Republicans are going to get another chance so soon after losing their last congressional majority precisely because how badly the Democrats have failed under Pelosi’s leadership as speaker over the last four years. The public is going to entrust the Republicans greatly in the next Congress and will expect much in return. If the new GOP majority gets the job done and makes real changes, they may enjoy power for decades to come.