This week Rep. Michael Grimm from Staten Island pleaded guilty to tax fraud, although there are plenty of more charges he has to deal with. Considering that he was handed these indictments before the elections, that he threatened to throw an NY1 reporter off a balcony, that he couldn't remember the last book he read during a debate, and said that the crowning moment of his tenure was the opening of an Applebee's, you wonder why the hell Staten Island voted for him. Of course this is where I insert jokes about the idiocy of that borough, but the voters during the last election were facing a choice between him or an idiot, Domenic Recchia, who said he had foreign policy experience since he was an exchange student in Japan. Staten Islanders weighed their choices and decided to go with the guy who at least knew what he was doing, even if he was a criminal. Now they're facing a possibility that their representative will be in prison, especially since the constitution has no guidelines on what to do in this situation. Which makes you wonder why they didn't. Well, okay, the line is, "The President, the Vice President, and all civil Officers of the United States," but that last statement is really fucking vague and some say the legislature doesn't apply. I remember as a child reading about the debates they had during the Constitutional Convention about what to do with a shitty president, but it never occurred to them you could have rogue congressmen? Right now the impeachment process is done by congress. As we all know, having a body police itself is one of the stupidest ideas in the world. Admittedly I doubt Grimm will stay on if he's convicted because the House wouldn't want an actual prisoner to tarnish their already terrible image, but I'm certain if there was an independent body watching these fuckers we wouldn't have so much corruption in congress.