Shallow State: How Congress Protects Its Own

Even members of opposite parties do not go after each other for ethics issues, part of a truce to avoid mutually assured destruction. Members of Congress are old. Really old. The House Democrats’ top three leaders are all 78 or 79. Democrat John Dingell was re-elected to the House every two years from 1955 to 2014, even though he represented Detroit during the period in which the city sank from America’s crown jewel of manufacturing to a symbol of urban blight. In 2014 he was replaced — by his wife. -- More....