Most congressmen and senators are either bought off, compromised, or simply towing the party line within the manufactured left/right paradigm. For those who in rare instances truly want to do the right thing, the executive branch and it's various unelected advisers push a continued strategy of coercing (i.e. "vote the way we tell you to or there will be collapse, rioting, depression, racial dissention, etc"). That is how both TARP and Obamacare was rammed through. And this is no doubt how they will justify suing Arizona for upholding immigration law and how they will justify attacking Iran (remember WMDs? Now it's "Iran almost has a nuke--quick lets do something!). I think Rodriguez is probably more lazy, uniformed, and fearfully drinking the kool aid as opposed to being a blatant liar. Unfortunately, that doesn't really matter. The voters are angry and will remember how these criminals and/or simpletons continually voted against the will of the American people. When "We the People" finally awaken from our long slumber, we'll not only recognize the democrat/republican paradigm as a long running control mechanism, but will begin to realize our true power.
The "Hackers" are actually covert whistle blowers--lower level scientists who were aware of the grand fraud and felt compelled to do something about it to either keep themselves out of jail or to simply do the right thing for humanity. God bless these scientists either way. "Climategate" will get bigger and bigger and hopefully will lead to an unsuccessful (for the nazi globalists) Copenhagen meeting.