http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12055360/cover_story_time_to_go_inside_the_worst_congress_everThe Worst Congress Ever
How our national legislature has become a stable of thieves and perverts -- in five easy steps MATT TAIBBI
There is very little that sums up the record of the U.S. Congress in the Bush years better than a half-mad boy-addict put in charge of a federal commission on child exploitation. After all, if a hairy-necked, raincoat-clad freak like Rep. Mark Foley can get himself named co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, one can only wonder: What the hell else is going on in the corridors of Capitol Hill these days?
These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula -- a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable. If there was ever a reason of why we need to fight for the majority, this article says it better than anything else I've ever read. It's not about the votes you see on C-Span but the shenanigans that go on behind closed doors in committee. The republicans have practically shut out the democrats from any work in formulating the bills that ultimately come to the floor of congress for a vote.
Lately Rolling Stone Magazine has been doing some amazing expose on the horrors of this administration including a great two-part article from Robert Kennedy Jr. about the voter fraud in this country.
Check out the link or pick up the magazine!
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