God bless America

Can anyone compete with the US ?

Unhappy with our UK-centric site, we’ve been advised we’re missing out on a whole raft of glorious bad boy behaviour in government from our friends across the pond.

It’d be interesting to do some kind of similar analysis on our MPs, but until one of us gets the time, you’ll have to make do with this set of stats from the land of Dubya where there's an organisation, not unlike our Parliament, which has 535 members, of these ;

117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit
29 have been accused of spousal abuse
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
19 have been accused of writing bad checks
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shoplifting
7 have been arrested for fraud
3 have done time for assault

It's called the House of Congress.

We wonder how they'd fare if the Misrepresentation of the People Act got onto the statute books over there.