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'.

Comments

[egghead]

Hmmm, first cannibalism, then sausages.
Who else is hungry?

[T Leary]

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]

Well thank goodness we have campaign finance laws to protect us now.

[shane]

Logrolling. Vote trading. This is impossible!

[Charlie]

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

I'm shocked. Shocked.

For God's sake grow up.

[Bill Clinton]

Nobody likes a narc!

[Les]

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

[ppd]

whats in sausage? parliament?