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 &quot;how did they think that this was a good idea&quot; that morphs into &quot;how do they get away with that for more than 15 seconds&quot;.<p>I&#x27;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.