is this senator worth the money?

     You may have read that last post and responded, 'Uh, what?' See, we just had a gander at the voting record and suchlike of one Robert Portman, who happens to be one of our senators there in the Washington Swamplands. He is, get this, an eight- term senator no less, and he has accomplished precisely nothing. Now, I don't much care for the illusion that a senator busily passing all manner of legislation is necessarily a good thing - it's usually just bad for everyone - but for crying out loud, the guy has been taking up space since 1993. Surely he could have done something interesting in that time. The least he could have done is give us a good scandal from time to time. You know, something involving interns and pages and photocopiers, something to earn the salary.

     No wonder things are in such bad shape.

P.S.

     It just occurred to me that someone might have paid a bargain price for this senator. Who knows? Perhaps he has done precisely what his employer has required. 

     No, it takes guts to be that corrupt.