February 13, 2008 1:27PM 

# Whaddaya Know? Pangloss Was Right after all! 

By [Andrew J. Coulson](https://www.cato.org/people/andrew-coulson) 

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All these years I was thinking that Voltaire’s Pangloss was a credulous ignoramus for claiming that “we live in the best of all possible worlds.” But then I turn on the TV while making coffee this morning to find the Congress of the United States of America spending its limited time [chatting with grown men who play a game for a living](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid=absNeI33UPUo&refer=home).…

Fantastic! If this is the most important issue for our elected representatives to be dealing with, our nation and the world must be in far far better shape than I imagined.

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The first blogger to put up a list of every elected representative who participated in this foolishness, along with the districts they represent, gets a hotlink. Just e‑mail me at ACoulson-at-cato-dot-org.

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