A Snowball in Hell
Four members of the House of Representatives have taken it upon themselves to actually represent for a change. What they are offering their fellow-members is constituent-friendly legislation in the extreme—a cleaning up and closing down of the most obvious opportunities for congressmen to sidle up to the feed- trough.
It probably hasn’t the chance of a snowball in hell of being enacted, but who knows? Congress is scared stiffer than a three-martini lunch by the Abramoff investigations. Mid-term elections are coming up, the public is fed up with both parties nearly equally and in that climate, anything can happen. Metaphorically, it’s 4am—do you know where your Representative is?
The heroes of this cautionary tale are David Obey of Wisconsin, Barney Frank of Massachusetts, David Price of North Carolina and Tom Allen of Maine. They’re an interesting bunch, playing to their districts in a time when ‘morals’ and ‘congressman’ don’t read well in the same sentence, but interesting none the le…