Why head lice are more popular than Congress

By way of Sullivan:

The HuffPo’s Ryan Grim and Sabrina Siddiqui obtained a PowerPoint presentation given to incoming Democratic freshmen legislators by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the DCCC’s recommended schedule for House members includes four hours spent on the phone begging rich people for money and one hour spent begging rich person for money in person. This is the daily schedule. As Kevin Drum notes, this leaves no time for studying or homework. …

This, as much as anything else, is why our Congress is both dysfunctional, legislators have no clue what they’re voting for or against most of the time, and so attentive to the priorities of the very wealthy.

And these are the Democrats!

Head lice are ahead of Congress by a 67 to 19 percent margin.

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