June 20, 2006
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A House Depleted
The best article in the brand-new Democracy: A Journal of Ideas is Brad Carson’s review (reg. req’d) of a book called The House: The History of the House of Representatives by Robert Remini. And it is so good because it is so sad:
The distance from [Henry] Clay to [Dennis] Hastert can only be measured along a steep descent. It is for this reason that Remini