DANA MILBANK: Ruined by one-party rule.

It's not often that residents of the District of Columbia get to brag about our local government, but this is one of those moments when we are leading the nation. We in the capital are on the cutting edge of entropy.

Even perennial contenders such as Louisana and New Jersey can't compete with the record of dysfunction and corruption we have compiled in recent weeks.

Milbank does have occasional bouts of sanity when it's his ox being gored, but here's the rub: he won't vote to kick the bastards out because D.C. is a one-party town and Milbank refuses to vote in the Democrat primary (lest he be thought of as biased, you see). So rather that taking part in reforming his vaunted party, he whines that he's disenfranchised by ... the Tea Party and Republicans!

Kojo Nnamdi (D.C. resident and NPR radio talk show host) agrees D.C. is corrupt, but -- wait for it -- it's Congress' fault for not making the District of Columbia America's 51st state.

You have to read it to believe it.