While I am tempted to agree with you, I don't think punishing the patent examiners is the issue. According the to the reports I have read is that the patent office is overworked, underfunded and suffering from huge turnover. What we need is more support for reform projects such as the Peer to Patent Project.

http://www.peertopatent.org/

There should be a better framework for weeding out the bogus patents by allowing experts in the field to decided what is obvious rather than a patent examiner with 5 years of work experience and little knowledge in the field of the patent.