When do we throw the B***ards out?

I'm getting real tired of this. Why is it that the ego of our Congressmen is so wide and so vast that they can't even stay focused on what we are paying them to accomplish.
Yes, remember? We pay their salaries. Where does the line exist when a Senator just spends too much time with unproductive vitriol and has to answer to a mature public wanting reason and accountability to what they've actually done, and not what they say they've done (or what their opponents say they've done).

"More than anything else, these statements are a reflection of this polarized and poisonous political time in which we live," said Robert Schmuhl, a professor of politics and communications at the University of Notre Dame. "It seems as though every outrageous statement is matched by a similarly outrageous reaction, which only amplifies the rhetoric and creates more of a problem for people trying to understand politics today."

And in case you think that the above "time in which we live" is just because of Bush, you have long term memory loss.
I think that the statements by Sen. Durbin last week were horrible. But at the same time, throwing the same back at the Democrats, or saying things like, "like moths to a flame, Democrats can't help themselves when it comes to denigrating and demonizing Christians" (Rep John Hostettler R-Ind) isn't real productive either.
Also, I'm not sure if hammering Durbin for his lame apology is a worthwhile enterprise either. Sure, it was lame. But you expected something else from a Senator?

Update: I noticed that Sen. McCain accepted his apology.
However, Joe Katzman doesn't see Durbin's speech as an apology, and notes that people are not taking this seriously enough, as soldiers in the field consider rhetoric like this to be life-threatening.