Stephen Green describing Congress to somebody north of the longest undefended border in the world (no, not the Mexican-American border, at least not yet):
The Senate is kind of like the House of Lords, only we’ve been stupid enough to let them hold on to real power.
The House is 435 people so offensive that their neighbors think it’s worth spending a couple hundred thousand dollars a year just to ship them away to Washington. These same bozos determine our taxes.
To which I add, the Speaker of the House tends to think that he or she is Prime Minister, when it is the executive that presides over the Senate.
If PRO is the opposite of CON, what is the opposite of PROGRESS?