This picture, courtesy of the Pew Research Center, isn’t worth a thousand words in the literal sense, but the few dozen words it does use tell a pointed story about the people’s perception of their “representatives” in Congress:

Notice how small the word “liberal” is in the snapshot. It indicates how few people choose to characterize Congress by political philosophy when there are so many better adjectives to use.

But my favorite descriptor for Congress is still the one offered by a man in a Philadelphia focus group late last year: Satan.