That bears repeating. We are getting the government we richly deserve.
These thieves should have been tarred, feathered, and run out of Washington on a rail long ago. Instead, we give them pay raises, more of our money to spend, and overwhelmingly re-elect them to their cushy jobs year after year.
Frankly, our biggest civic mistakes were giving the vote to people who either don't own property or pay taxes and allowing rampant fraud in the voting system.
Good civics would hurt our social life, localy, though. Even Bush wants to run for this Congress of thieves these days.