Hmmm … is it better to be Worst or Dumbest? Remarkably (or perhaps not — it takes a certain native cunning to be particularly bad), the two lists don’t intersect at all.
Rolling Stone‘s Worst List:
1. Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.)
2. Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.)
3. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska)
4. Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.)
5. Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.)
6. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.)
7. Rep. Dick Pombo (R-Calif.)
8. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.)
9. Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.)
10. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colo.)
I’ll note that the reporting here is rather glibly “Rolling Stone” in style — no negative hyperbole or dubious side-swipe goes uninnuendoed, and the rhetoric is relentlessly from the Left (though the author notes that the Dems aren’t likely to make Congress any better). Still, the folks identified are hard to defend, even if two of them hail from Colorado, and if
not necessarily the worst, they’re certainly all worth giving the boot at the soonest opportunity (which, coincidentally, comes up in just a few weeks …).
(via Randy)
UPDATE: My mistake — Rep. Young is on both lists. Go Alaska!
Regarding Young and the “bridges to nowhere” — one of Randy’s correspondents notes:
Ah, but nobody ever achieved lasting fame with the “Bob Smith Memorial Highway Shoring Up.” Humungo bridges, though …