The Tragic Mediocrity of Congress

John Harris: “Representative democracy, it turns out, means representation for everyone. That includes whizzes and schlumps and reprobates and the dudes at the seaside Hooters 15 minutes from Gaetz’s Panhandle home of Fort Walton Beach, who might find it OK that their member… showed cell phone photos of nude women he supposedly slept with to other members on the House floor.”

Said one lawmaker: “All parts of the Bell Curve of society are well represented.”