Adjusted for inflation, a million dollars isn't what it was a century or even a decade ago. So sure, at some point the Congress was bound to have a majority of millionaires. Yet, in a country where the 2012 median household income was $51,017 - and fell between 2011 and 2012 - there is something truly perverse about not only the rising inequality between the incomes and wealth of the masses and the elites who govern them, but the rising political inequality that follows.