yeah i read, you can't stand outside their home or office and protest even if we don't like who's in office it's a distraction.
but you can still get your community or district to sign a petition to recall the officials who aren't doing their jobs. Are right are still there in a form but I do feel this is shady since the protest in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida over their republican/tea party governors were loud and garnered unwanted attention.
the deficit won't be taken care of till both parties put there differences aside and negotiate a way to raise revenue but party lines are more important to this house mostly and to an extent the congress as well and nothing is getting done.