Want to know the truth about life in DC?

Then put down the think tank tomes and pompous political memoirs and pick up The Washingtonienne, the trashy roman a` clef of Jessica Culter, the former Hill aide who obtained notoriety by blogging about how she “supplemented” her income by “servicing” wealthy older DC gentleman, including a high-level Bush appointee and a Chief of Staff to a prominent Senator beloved by the family values wing of neoconservatism. Culter’s sleazy little tale (defiantly NOT for the children, and neither is the above link) perfectly captures the vanity and hollowness of the typical DC type . Here is the money quote, from page 2 of the book:

“…everyone in Washington was an insecure nerd…This was especially true of anyone who worked in politics. Only a nerd would be attracted to legislative power, of all things. Nerds love ruling over people, don’t they? They truly believe that they should make all of our decisions for us just because they went to graduate school.”

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8:40 pm on August 30, 2005