Steve Gilliard - "Holy shit, that's a big f**king forest fire".

Setve Gilliard's News Blog:

[...]in the end, people need to trust their government. Not to do what they want, but to work. Americans expect their government to work. When you get a drivers license, you don't have to bribe the clerk, you don't have to pay the school so your kid can go there, the police don't demand payment so you can keep your business open.

Americans read about those things, they don't live them.

The betrayal of this Congress has been on many levels, most of all, not standing up for themselves against the rapacious Bush administration. But this shows they wouldn't even
protect themselves against the obvious. It never occured to them that Mark Foley could destroy them all. They thought they had it contained.

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