109th Congress wimps out...good riddance

Buh-bye, do-nothing 109th Congress.

One of the mose scandal ridden Congressional groups ever...Foley, Abramoff, Ney, yada, yada, yada... Even conservatives are disgusted (well, not the talk show hosts, but they're not conservatives, anyway. They're ENTERTAINERS who give the audience what they want....)

The House ethics committee, in a report Friday, admonished Republicans for turning a blind eye for years to the inappropriate conduct of former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla. He resigned in September after it was revealed he had sent salacious electronic messages to former teenage pages.

Republicans claim some major accomplishments this year: passing a pension overhaul; renewing the Patriot Act; enacting a port security bill; and endorsing Bush's plans to create military commissions to prosecute suspected terrorists.

But this Congress could not move ahead on promised lobbying and ethics changes; failed to reach a consensus on the administration's warrantless eavesdropping program; and did not develop a plan to deal with the 12 million illegal immigrants in the country. more

Worst Congress Ever

Who's the worst congress ever?

The 109th, for sure. For a bunch of Family Values guys we've never seen so much sex perversion in public office! Jeez, what a mess. These guys (and gals) must be sex-starved, victims of sex abuse....whatever it is that creates the sleezy behavior we've been witness to.

Add that to the criminal behavior - fraud, lying, cheating the taxpayers, etc. and, well, who's got time to govern?
RS has it all:

...These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a political obscenity on par with the court of Nero or Caligula -- a stable of thieves and perverts who committed crimes rolling out of bed in the morning and did their very best to turn the mighty American empire into a debt-laden, despotic backwater, a Burkina Faso with cable.

10 Dumbest Congressmen

This is worth reading and totally bi-partisan:

Radar Online:
Congress, as any CSPAN viewer can attest, has never been a bastion of intelligence. As far back as a century ago, Samuel Johnson was demeaning the nation's legislators as a "circus of rogues and fools." But when it comes to sheer stupidity, the men and women of the 109th have distinguished themselves as a breed apart.

Despite a notoriously compliant president and Republican majorities in both houses, they've spent over 600 days in session without conducting a shred of productive business, which is not to say they've just sat around...