How Laws And Sausages Get Made

Reason Staff | 1.9.2004 3:59 AM

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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egghead 23 years ago

Hmmm, first cannibalism, then sausages.
Who else is hungry?
T Leary 23 years ago

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 23 years ago

Well thank goodness we have campaign finance laws to protect us now.
shane 23 years ago

Logrolling. Vote trading. This is impossible!
Charlie 23 years ago

My God, there is arm-twistin' going on in Congress.

I'm shocked. Shocked.

For God's sake grow up.
Bill Clinton 23 years ago

Nobody likes a narc!
Les 23 years ago

Charlie, by "grow up" do you mean we should accept or abide blatent corruption?
ppd 22 years ago

whats in sausage? parliament?

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