Congress is home for the Thanksgiving holiday and WSJ‘s George Melloan says good riddance (sub. req’d): “Few sessions could surpass this year’s deliberations of the 109th Congress in terms of the hours wasted on bombast and blather with so little serious accomplishment.” Read the rest for a truly depressing account of how Washington’s finer features and campaign finance reform have seated a wasteful permanent government.
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