Imagined In One Picture : Serial Plagiarist Senator Rand Paul Delivers A Tear-Jerking Apology

by Michael Matheron · Published November 1, 2013 · Updated November 1, 2013

Michael Matthew Bloomer, November 1, 2013

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Who? . . . . . . Me?

Somehow, I survived 24 years on Capitol Hill during the “Conservative Download” between Presidents Reagan and George W. Bush. My HQ during this error-riddled era was Congress’s own Congressional Research Service (CRS), a tax-funded legislative branch agency in the belly of the Library of Congress. CRS’s only “client” is the U.S. Congress. CRS minions (like I was) respond to thousands of weekly requests for information, reports, in-depth studies, seminars, briefings, and memos from members and their office minions, and all must comply with a founding principle of nonpartisanship, which renegades sometimes circumvent.

While there from 1984 tt0 mid-2008, my HQ was in CRS’s American Law Division, and I arrived having just completed a Master’s Degree in Legal Studies from Antioch University. So I was put to work as a legislative policy and research specialist. I covered many issue areas as the years passed, everything from abortion law to “entitlement” programs, from environmental matters to Middle East war(s), from soup to nuts, i.e., I had a request once for a study of a federal district court case involving 103 cases of asparagus, or thereabouts. Memory fades . . .

Now retired, I’m freed from CRS nonpartisanship, and “came out” as an aggressive progressive, as a contributing writer for Nation of Change. Also, when I retired in 2008, I started writing this blog, a place where we examine and often skewer GOP Congressloons, Senadorks, Me Partiers, zombie economists and others wandering with that herd. Stop by often for a sometimes serious, sometimes funny, and always aggressively progressive POV, and with plenty of fun graphics to boot!

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Oh, I have a book in progress. A sad tale of political humor about the 2012 GOP primary exploration to a land called ludicrous. The material’s all collected. Swaths of text exist. Really. I don’t just hope to complete it. Despite many deadlines that died, I now have moved from hope to finish to “plan to finish.” Perhaps by next March. Yes, next March! Indeed.

You may wonder, why did I say “perhaps by next March”? That doesn’t sound very “planny.” I don’t know why either. Obviously, I must rededicate myself. I shall. I do! Indeed.