[beebuster2000]

shouldn’t your tag line be reversed? it makes no sense when you put idiot first. it should read:
“suppose you are a member of congress and then suppose you are an idiot, but i repeat myself”

[Sooth2222]

Could be. But that's how Mark Twain wrote it. ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."- Mark Twain, a Biography)

http://www.twainquotes.com/Congress.html

"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress." It's as true today as it was in Mark Twain's time. Maybe it's even more true today.