Seriously? Congress? Change?

Rep Jim Cooper's (D-TN) communications director just emailed to say that he is the first congressman to take Larry Lessig's Change Congress pledge. As I said before, I don't think this will fix all of our problems, but it strikes me as a basically good idea. Cooper has also vowed to forgo earmarks in 2009. Hearty applause on both.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2008/03/seriously-congress-change/3109/