The Big Lobotomy
How Republicans Made Congress Stupid
By Paul Glastris and Haley Sweetland Edwards
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/...
Last September, as they scrambled to decide on one final ultimatum before shutting down the federal government, Republican House leaders came up with what seemed like an odd demand: to strip their own staff of health care benefits.
A debilitating brain drain has actually been under way in Congress for the past twenty-five years....
This is a detailed analysis of how the Federal Government has been eviscerated from the inside out.