The Worst Congress Ever

Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone Magazine  tells us what he really thinks.
It’s a long article and worth reading for the colorful descriptions. Samples:

“...a hairy-necked, raincoat-clad freak like Rep. Mark Foley...”
“...the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula...”
“...the legendary Republican monster James Sensenbrenner Jr., an ever-sweating, fat-fingered beast who wields his gavel in a way that makes you think he might have used one before in some other arena, perhaps to beat prostitutes to death.”
“...Rep. Bill Thomas -- a pugnacious Californian with an enviable ego who was caught having an affair with a pharmaceutical lobbyist...”
“...GOP leaders cruised the aisles like the family elders from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, frantically chopping at the legs and arms of Republicans who opposed the measure.”
“...the "torture bill." It's a law even Stalin would admire, one that throws habeas corpus in the trash, legalizes a vast array of savage interrogation techniques and generally turns the president of the United States into a kind of turbocharged Yoruba witch doctor, with nearly unlimited snatching powers.”
“Watching Ted Stevens spend half a trillion dollars is like watching a junkie pull a belt around his biceps with his teeth. You get the sense he could do it just as fast in the dark. “
“Instead of dealing with its chief constitutional duty -- approving all government spending -- Congress devotes its time to dumb bullshit.”
“...the same Congress that put a drooling child-chaser like Mark Foley in charge of a House caucus on child exploitation also named (Duke) Cunningham, a man who can barely write his own name in the ground with a stick, to a similarly appropriate position.”
“...appalling moral blindness, a sort of high-functioning, sociopathic stupidity, has been a consistent characteristic of the numerous Republicans indicted during the Bush era.”
“...when Ohio's officious jackass of a (soon-to-be-ex) Congressman Bob Ney finally went down for accepting $170,000 in trips from Abramoff in exchange for various favors...”
“The greed and laziness of the 109th Congress has reached such epic proportions that it has finally started to piss off the public.”
“Sloth. Greed. Abuse of power. Hatred of democracy. Government as a cheap backroom deal, finished in time for thirty-six holes of the world's best golf. And brains too stupid to be ashamed of any of it. If we have learned nothing else in the Bush years, it's that this Congress cannot be reformed. The only way to change it is to get rid of it. Fortunately, we still get that chance once in a while.”

Comments

[Slooze]

"If we have learned nothing else in the Bush years, it's that this Congress cannot be reformed. The only way to change it is to get rid of it."

And Taibbi believes that by replacing this elected Congress with a different elected Congress, "[g]overnment as a cheap backroom deal" will have been transformed into.... What?

Taibbi must be very, very young. Or very, very naive. Or very, very influenced by drugs. :-)