Farm Bill

Perhaps you read Greg Sargent's excellent piece for the Washington Post Tuesday about increasingly reckless and aggressive GOP nihilism in Congress.

Chad Pergram is a Fox News reporter who skulks around the House floor all day looking to get behind the votes and delve into the whys of what's going on on the floor. He's better than almost all the other political reporters in the House-- and yes, he works for Fox!

Not the New Dem who called me... but it could have beenA congressman who I used to talk to a few years ago-- before he was a congressman-- called me Friday. He said he felt badly because of the stuff I've been writing about him. I haven't really been writing about him much-- just reporting (usually without comment and never with any pejorative language) his ghastly votes. He said he felt bad because he likes me. I told him I felt bad because I like him.

Boehnerland, the community of revolving door K Street lobbyists who run the House Republican caucus through their man John, is very troubled this week. The unexpected defeat of the Farm Bill has shaken up the lobbyist community to its core.