When you outsource something you take on an obligation to exert more, not less, oversight. The Republicans during their control of Congress have sought to outsource all sorts of things. That may be fine if they had also strengthened the oversight of the contractors to whom projects were assigned. Instead they did the opposite: they […]

Just a short note to post my lament to the last day of the 109th Congress. The worst in American history. It brought us scandal and corruption on a grand scale. It reminded us of the great historian’s words about the corrupting influence of power. It sat for a total of 218 days spread over […]