The 10 Worst Congressmen

Over the years Rolling Stone magazine has lost its standing as the Music Magazine. It doesn't know if it wants to be the hip mag with all the rap stars or the classic music mag for all those greying yuppies. It sometimes tries to be both with equally diasterous results. No bad word on certain acts are allowed. The Rolling Stones could put out an album of them farting and the mag would give the rock group five stars.

It's not always that bad. It still does some great interviews.

One area that I think it has if nothing gotten better over the years is in its investigate journalism. The Stone writes about some important stuff. The articles that became Fast Food Nation started in the Stone. Hunter Thompson wrote a lot of his stuff for the Stone. The Stone was the source for the stories about voter fraud in the last election. No, not the one where Bush stole Florida to win, but where he stole Ohio to win the next election. They've done some interesting stories about the Diebold voting machines.

Their newest issue talks about our present day Congress and calls it prehaps the worst Congress Ever! It also lists the 10 worst Congressmen (and women) currently serving time in our nation's capital right now. For those of you that don't read the Stone I thought I'd share those 10 with you.

1) Dennis Hastert (R-Ill): Calls him the weakest House speaker in history. Made $2 million off a deal he pushed through that creates a highway over land he owns. Knew about the Mark Foley scandal years ago, but I guess decided pages weren't worth protecting. With Bill Frist pushed a deal through congress that gave the pharmaceutical industry immunity from liablitlity lawsuits.

2) James Sensenbrenner Jr (R-Wis): Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. His solution to problems: lock 'em up. He wants to turn 12 million undocumented immigrants into felons. Any adult selling a joint to a teenager should get at least ten years in jail. He helped pass the law that makes it harder for people to declare bankruptcy and refused to consider an exempttion from the bill's restrictions for victims of Hurricane Katrina. He also voted against the aid package for Katrina victims.

3) Don Young (R-Alaska): Got $400 million to build two bridges to nowhere in Alaska. He told voted against aid for Katrina victims and suggested they could "kiss my ear!"

4) William Jefferson (D-La): This one is a little personnel for me, from my home state. Caught with $100,000 in his freezer, accepting bribes when he should be helping his constituents recover from Katrina. And the scary part is that he might win.

5) Jerry Lewis (R-Calif): Chairman of House Appropriations Committe. His best friend is lobbyist Bill Lowery and to get Lewis' vote you got to pay Mr. Lowery. The FBI has issued ten subpoenas involving Lewis' current operation.

6) Tom Tancredo (R-Colo): Just to the right of Adolf Hitler. Wants to halt all immigration, legal or otherwise. Suggested that in the future we should bomb Mecca and other holy sites.

7) Dick Pombo (R-Calif): Chairman of the House Resources Committiee. Wants to abolish the Endangered Species Act.

8) Curt Weldon (R-Pa): Vice Chair of the House Armed Service Committee. Still thinks Saddam had WMDs. If there's a conspiracy theory he probably believes it.

9) Hal Rogers (R-KY): Chairman of House Subcommittee on Homeland Security. If it's something that needs to be built for homeland security odds on Rogers is getting it built in his home state, even if the people building it aren't qualified to do so.

10) Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo): An evangelical Christian. And that's almost enough to say right there. Wants to outlaw gay marriage of course. Wants to legalize concealed weapons.