-Caveat Lector-
D.C. always HAS been a corrupt mess. Go back a hundred years and you've got
the same blessed thing. Read *The Gilded Age* by Mark Twain and Charles
Dudley Warner, with its detailed list of bribes spent to get a "private"
bill passed by Congress. (It's also a highly enjoyable story.) Then get a
copy of Baedeker's *United States* (English-language edition, pre-WWI) and
read the essay on "Government and Politics" by James Bryce. Bryce was, at
the time he wrote it, professor of politics at Oxford; he was later named
British Ambassador to the United States, given a knighthood and eventually a
life peerage. Bryce is most famous for his magisterial *The American
Commonwealth*, which, next to de Tocqueville's *Democracy in America*, is
the best commentary on American government and politics by a foreigner. The
Baedeker's essay is a beautiful, if cynical, capsulization of *The American
Commonwealth*, with comments on urban political machines, political
corruption, and the gullibility of the masses that ring very true a century
after they were written.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [CTRL] The Obstruction Of Justice Department?--..
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Prudy
>
> You are right, every so often, once in a while, someone honorable comes
> along
>
> But fewer and fewer over the last decade.
>
> As a generality D.C. TODAY is a corrupt mess.
>
> And people like Laura Ingersoll dont even know what the "right" thing is
> anyway.
>
>
> ASU
>
>
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