The CQ/Roll Call Guide to the Next Congress is out, and it makes for depressing reading. We’ve really elected a group of ideological misfits. It’s a group of rodeo announcers, hog farmers, nursing home owners, car dealers, oilfield equipment CEO’s, derivatives traders, lobbyists, congressional aides, commercial trucking magnates, fumigators, investment bankers, air conditioning and heating company owners, insurance agents, energy company executives, and, of course, lawyers. A very large number of these freshmen have never held any previous elected office.