Marion Barry and David Catania -- are there two other such utterly USELESS politicians in the entire United States?

A plague on both their houses.

Marion Barry = Sociopath. Is he really blaming the media for reporting his corruption? Wow!

Catania is great. In all that he does, you can see that he really cares about the city.

I will support Catania forever because he's the ONLY person in DC Govt who calls Marion Barry out for being the fool that he is.

Thank you, David!

Catania is pompous. The fact that he admittedly supported no-bid, one time (indefinate) grants to non-profit campaign contributors at the expense of other local tax-paying service providers who could provide the same services at equal or greater savings to the city is nothing to be proud of, it is dispicable. Other tax-paying non-profits denied the right to bid for those tax dollars have overhead expenses as well.

That said, it is time for both he and Barry to retire from the Council and allow for some younger, moderate energy take over. This old crowd, to include Jack Evans, have come to be too comfortable, they find that they are "entitled" to be on the Council.

always dug barry, i really have, but i have to agree with the above post, it's time for catania, barry and evans to go. surely there are other worthy politicians in this town!

Half of the city council should retire. Barry is a joke. He calls the Washington Post becuase he doesn't wanted people pointing fingers at him. Too late, people are already pointing fingers at him and it isn't because of Catania.

"After yesterday's meeting, Barry summoned the Washington Post to argue that he should not blamed if the earmarks are eliminated."

And the WaPo came running, once again, to enable DC's long-running Addict-in-Chief... time for WaPo writers to start attending some Al-Anon meetings so they can figure out what to do after Barry is gone.

Marion Barry is a sad, pathetic character who serves only his own tired need of self indulgence. He's delusional and cartoonish at this point.

Washington Dame doesn't have a clue about the relative merits of Barry and Catania. Catania's efforts to get DC's fair share of federal Medicaid $ alone, far exceeds the sum total of Barry's accomplishments. Add Catania's efforts to improve DC DoH, the immunization van, childrens health, health legislation for the poor and you begin to ecognize that Catania is not just an empty suit. From a constituent's perspective, give me Catania any day - just ask the folks in Ward 8 how things have improved there - during Barry's mayoral stints - and now, again, as the Ward 8 Councilmember. A little knowledge goes a long way with too many of these posters. If you don't know what you are talking about at least have the courage to admit it to yourself and stay out of the fray.

Only real thing David Catania cares about is pushing the Same-Sex agenda! His present tactics are merely to get even with Barry for being the holdout vote. Barry might have done some wrong doing, however Catania is just as corrupt as Barry! If we're going to start asking folks to leave the Council we need to ask Graham, Mendelson, Catania, Barry, Gray, and several others to leave the seats! Then point our eyes at getting Fenty to step down too! Corruption is not just Barry's problem its a problem of the whole DC Governments failure to do the wishes of the tax payers and only listening to a few groups after self interest! Hell with Catania!

For the sake of citizens, it would be nice if all council members could at least get along, and stay focused on the City's business. As public officials, it would be
nice if they would at least show some respect to each other.

For the champion of Catania's "improvements" to DOH, The city's HIV/AIDS rate has skyrocketed in the District under the chairmanship of David Catania, it is the highest in the nation. Ohhhh, that is primarily in the African American community, they don't matter to "your kind".

Whoever is repsonsible for exposing Marion Barry's corrpution performed an act of public service and deserves our respect.

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