Worst Congress ever?

From DC Examiner:

The 2008 budget year ended yesterday, but Congress hasn't approved a single one of a dozen annual appropriations bills needed to keep the federal government functioning on a day-to-day basis. Hence the $630 billion stop-gap measure, nearly the size of the failed Wall Street bailout. It passed the House on a 370-68 vote even though, as Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., candidly admitted, "very few people have any idea what's in it." Cornered House members had less than 24 hours to review the 357-page bill and 752 pages of accompanying material before being forced to either pass it - or shut down most of the federal government today.

I seem to recall Speaker Pelosi asking scornfully of the bailout package, "When was the last time you were asked for seven ... hundred ... billion ... dollars?"

Why, as it turns out, just this week, Madame Speaker. By you. With no oversight allowed.

The woman can hardly be bothered to pull together a bill to keep the government running. And when she does, she intentionally waits to the last minute to shove a pork-laden piece of garbage (estimated earmarks: $19.1 billion) down our throats knowing that we'll have to swallow it.

House Appropriations Committee chairman David Obey, D-WI, who helped Pelosi craft the earmark-stuffed bill, admitted that the Democratic leadership deliberately decided to "kick the can down the road" and wait for a new president who presumably won't veto future earmark-laden legislation...

Obey defended the Democrats' lack of transparency, saying "you're damn right it has [been secretive] because if it's done in public, it would never get done.”

Who the hell do these people think they are? I am running out of words to express my contempt for Nancy Pelosi and the 110th Congress.

And of course most of them will get reelected.


(h/t: Instapundit)