Your government at work

While I do realize that The Daily Show is not exactly news (although perhaps a little more news-like than Fox News), I found it pathetically telling that when Jon Stewart asked his Monday night guest, soon-to-be-former Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee (one of the last of the very nearly extinct breed of “moderate” Republicans) to name one thing Congress has done in the last five years that it could be proud of, the answer was silence. It was funny at first, but after about 30 seconds or so, when the man couldn’t come up with one damn thing, it was just really, really sad. (National pet a fish day? Ordering four new trees to be planted in some park somewhere? Anything? ). The senator was clearly at a loss—it wasn’t just a joke. Christ.

You can watch the interview here.