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How Laws And Sausages Get Made
Slate's Tim Noah has been tracking the squalid story of Rep. Nick Smith and the bribe he was offered to support the budget-busting Medicare Improvement Act. Read the whole tale and you'll laugh and cry, though you are unlikely to go home singin'.
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|1.9.04 @ 4:14AM|#
Hmmm, first cannibalism, then sausages.
Who else is hungry?
|1.9.04 @ 5:14AM|#
How do people know what an "acid flashback" is if doing acid is completely illegal? Is Bob Novak doing acid? Is Bob cutting up pieces of the Chicago Sun-Times and selling them at Phish concerts?
Warren|1.9.04 @ 7:33AM|#
Well thank goodness we have campaign finance laws to protect us now.
|1.10.04 @ 1:39AM|#
Logrolling. Vote trading. This is impossible!
|1.10.04 @ 12:20PM|#
My God, there is arm-twistin' going on in Congress.
I'm shocked. Shocked.
For God's sake grow up.
Bill Clinton|1.11.04 @ 2:18AM|#
Nobody likes a narc!
|1.11.04 @ 11:17AM|#
Charlie, by "grow up" do you mean we should accept or abide blatent corruption?
ppd|3.10.04 @ 2:40AM|#
whats in sausage? parliament?