I have a serious author crush on Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone. He writes really great pieces. The stuff he finds and writes about is a never ending stream of "how did they think that this was a good idea" that morphs into "how do they get away with that for more than 15 seconds".<p>I've always had bad feelings about Congress, thanks Matt for showing us the deep ugly underbody. Sadly this piece is from 2005, not much seems to have changed then. Maybe a second showing will get people to take another look.<p>OTOH, Matt should spend a few days in the Pennsylvania State government, they put the WTF in Horror Show.