We sent in clowns; this is the result  commentBy XxxxDecember 6,
2011   Mark Twain once wrote, "It could probably be shown by
facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American
criminal class except Congress." This proves, as if it needed
proving, that contempt of Congress is not a new phenomenon. With
its recent insistence, against the advice of all nutritional
experts and everyone else worried about the childhood obesity
epidemic in America, that tomato sauce on pizza was a vegetable,
we find ourselves once more bowing in awe at what passes for
intelligent legislation in D.C. and continue to wonder what the
heck is in the water there.  So when I read in the paper about
some miracle compromise Congress is going to somehow agree on
concerning a payroll tax, I can be forgiven for rolling my eyes
and thinking, "Yeah, right." Because, quite honestly, the idea
that Congress can agree on anything, compromise on anything, or
get anything done that doesn't ultimately benefit their
overlords -- that non-hu