Is this true?

[lonestarnot]

36 have been accused of spousal abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud

19 have been accused of writing bad checks

117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses

3 have done time for assault

71, repeat 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit

14 have been arrested on drug-related charges

8 have been arrested for shoplifting

21 currently are defendants in lawsuits. And

84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year Can you guess which organization this is?

Give up yet? . Scroll down, citizen !








It's the 535 members of the United States Congress. The same group of Idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

[Tace]

1. Check Snopes

This has been generally debunked. That's not to say that there's not a lot of truth to it.

[Lavender Brown]

2. Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/congress.htm

[lonestarnot]

6. Lavender Brown, do you ever get the impression that some of the writers

for Snopes lean right?

"Is this really supposed to have any significance in a society where people can and do sue at the drop of a hat, often for the most frivolous of reasons?"


"cheap bit of scandal-mongering netlore".... I said CHEAP BIT OF SCANDAL-MONGERING NETLORE!

heh heh heh

[Lavender Brown]

7. I don't know

I usually go there to read about non-political urban legends. ;) But they've debunked a lot of freeper-type stories and e-mail forwards too. :shrug:

[lonestarnot]

8. cool enough I say read everything you read critically.

[SmokingJacket]

3. Can this really be true??

Even the shoplifting seems like a bit much...

:wtf:

[undergroundpanther]

4. Sociopaths are the people who seek

power the most.With power you can look upstanding whiole being degenerate.
Everybody says of a serial killer that they were so "normal".

[bigwillq]

5. I don't think it is (nt)