Here's a prime example of what I talked about few months back in Too Much Too Soon. Chris Dodd is on the campaign trail instead of doing his job as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, where there just happens to be a lot of work to do to solve this whole Subprime Mortgage Crisis.
But we can't blame Dodd or the other lawmakers on the trail, right? Because it's just a bad system that has them campaigning earlier each cycle, taking them away from their real jobs and neglecting the running of the country. Somebody should pass a law against it. Hmmm, maybe they would if they weren't out there wooing Iowa. Wait a minute---maybe we CAN blame them. A little bit.
