Imagine my surpise

Congress has approval ratings that are expressible in single-digit format. Which is surprising, since they ended the war in Iraq, withdrew the troops, fixed Social Security expenditures, stopped overprinting of Federal Reserve notes...

Oh wait. They didn't do any of that. As a matter of fact, what have they done?

I'd like to reserve more anger and vitriol for this sort of thing, but things like this seem to take the lion's share of it.

It's depressing. Deeply depressing. And things are not looking up.