Congressional candidate (NC-2) Clay Aiken’s eyes popped wide open in epiphany.  You could almost see the light bulb over his head, as the American Idol runner-up caught a drift of the counterintuitive and fanciful deftness of the idea we were discussing.  More on his telling reaction later. The idea is magic, in that it’s transformative and incredibly illustrative – and fanciful in that it’s never going to happen.  So what is it? Congressional entropy is a "reverse seniority" way of determining congressional leadership.  In other words, once first elected to Congress, you start out in leadership – and you get less power each cycle that you return.  You might call it a "juniority" system. Entropy is the first law of thermodynamics, stating that the universe moves naturally from order to disorder.  It is the constant state of Washington.  People devolve in that burg, and as they decay, they get...(Read Full Article)