Congress doesn’t get much respect. It never has. At the dawn of our republic John Adams famously muttered: “In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.” A century after Adams, citizens resonated (and still do) to Mark Twain’s assertion: “Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.” And a century after Twain, Joe Carter described a congressman’s recent speech delivered to an empty House as “the single most clueless speech on economic policy that [he’s] ever heard anyone make. Seriously,” he emphasized, “ ever,” while I once described my stint as a speech writer as the time I was a congressman’s whore.
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