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“Sloth. Greed. Abuse of power. Hatred of Democracy. Government as a cheap backroom deal. . . . And brains too stupid to be ashamed of any of it.”

No, not Dean Zimmermann.

That’s how Matt Taibbi sums up the 109th Congress, “The Worst Congress Ever,” in the latest Rolling Stone.

It’s a good companion piece to the Bill Moyers thing I keep bringing up, “Capitol Crimes.”

Taibbi isn’t as polite as Moyers, cutting his journalistic teeth in post-Soviet Moscow at the incorrigible Exile , founding The Buffalo Beast, and almost bringing down the New York Press with his notorious article on the death of the pope. He is, however, one of the best journalists working the national political beat: nonpartisan, nondelusional, self-reflexive, funny, and profane. Had Hunter S. Thompson ever grown up, he might have become Matt Taibbi.

Taibbi’s Rolling Stone article digs into the disturbing “congressional methodology” of the Republicans on the Hill. And after finishing “The Worst Congress Ever,” you′ll wonder whether supposed “good” Republicans like Jim Ramstad and compliant DLC Democrats like Joe Lieberman are more contemptible than the cynical bastards like John Kline and Mark Kennedy.

After all, Ramstad and Lieberman have to know better but remain quietly complicit in the now well-documented scam run by the Republicans for the past six years.

–Loosestrife

Original post by Loosestrife

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