The following passage is excerpted from a news report from The Hill:

“For days, someone in the House had been editing multiple pages related to transgender issues that critics called ‘transphobic.’ The situation came to a head this week when the person changed the description of Orange Is the New Black actor Laverne Cox from ‘a real transgender woman’ to ‘a real man pretending to be a woman.’

“That move caused an administrator to ban anonymous edits from the IP address for a month.

“Gay rights group Human Rights Campaign called for Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to launch an investigation into which office was responsible.

“The person behind the edits—presumably a congressional staffer—remains anonymous but said in one of the Wikipedia’s behind-the-scenes pages that they were promoting ‘official business that has been explicitly authourized [sic] by the Representative.’”

The full article can be found at: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/technology/215796-congress-turns-wikipedia-into-forum-for-pranks-battle#ixzz3BWFln7WS

That congressional staffers seem to be involved in this sort of sophomoric skullduggery should come as a surprise to just about no one. The House has not been engaged in drafting meaningful legislation for years, and the main preoccupation of many of its members has become the promotion and exploitation of political divisiveness. It may be good politics, at least in the short term, but it is not good governance. In fact, it is simply not governance in any traditional or convention sense.