Memorandum to “Tax Cutters” from Mary McCarthy

“Congress—these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches , hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.”

Mary McCarthy

Excerpted from: Winokur, Jon, ed. The Portable Curmudgeon. New York: Plume, 1992.