Thanks to remarkable reporting skills honed over my career as a columnist, I have hunted down the impossible. I've found three of the 658 people who bought Heidi Montag's album, a woman who ate her placenta and--right after the Anthony Weiner scandal--two women who wanted to see pictures of my penis. What more the Pulitzer committee expects, I do not know.
But I have never had so challenging an assignment as finding people who approve of Congress. A CBS News/New York Times poll claims 12% of Americans like the job Congress is doing. While that matches the lowest number ever recorded,...