One of the most painful things about following Congress is that it is often hard to tell if a member is being an idiot or engaged in a cynical attempt to hide their true position. You can try to educate the uninformed but you can only hope to relentlessly expose the lies. The latest game [...]

We learned Wednesday from The Hill that many Democratic Senators don’t actually support all the great things they claim they have “fought for.” They lied to voters. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) doesn’t really support her health insurance rate-review agency as she claims to do. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) doesn’t really want Americans to have the choice of [...]

Today Carl Levin asked Goldman Sach’s Daniel Sparks about his “sales pitch,” quoting from a memo written by Sparks: “They structured like mad.  They traveled the world and worked their tails off to make lemonade from some big old lemons.” Just in case anyone wondered if Goldman knew it was peddling garbage,

Senate theater over financial reform won’t be complete until Harry Reid starts banging on about “cots in the Senate” (remember that one?) But I think Alvin Felzenberg has it just about right: What we are watching being played in the Senate is a farce performed in the theater of the absurd. The plot is simple. [...]