Peg on Aug 16 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web
Money in a freezer. Sex scandals on either side of the aisle. Cozy relations with developers, lobbyists and businessmen. Someone call the Ethics Committee!
Done.
No wonder it’s difficult to find almost any profession with ratings lower than those of Congress.
Sphere: Related ContentJoshua Foust on May 06 2008 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Economics
Congress is behaving atrociously: cutting assistance to hungry children abroad right when food prices are spiking, and preventing competition amongst our sugar producers. There’s more, of course.
I normally scoff at the talk of “lobbyists” and “special interest groups.” I know several lobbyists, and the only thing that makes them special is they’ve learned how to play the game. And that’s fine to a certain degree—going back at least to the Federalist Papers, the Founding Fathers understood there would be groups passionately arguing their case before Congress. But this is moving well beyond the pale.
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