The Washington Post reports Lame-Duck Congress May Run Out the Clock. They're not even showing up. Congress was in session just one week in November and will be just one week this month. "That will mean this Congress will have spent the least time in session of any in at least half a century." And those numbers inflate the time they worked. "On nine of its 'workdays' this year, the House held not a single vote -- meeting for less than eleven minutes. The Senate managed to top the House's feat, pulling off three workdays this year that lasted less than one minute."
" In the time they have met, lawmakers have failed to approve a budget resolution or pass at least eight of the 11 annual spending bills." And I guess I'm happy they didn't pass any significant piece of legislation. But my favorite line in the article is: "Lawmakers were forced to vacate their offices on Friday, and few of them want to hang around Washington with no place to sit."
If you haven't read the Rolling Stone article take a look. It describes the child-like behavior of the Republican majority. Literally not telling Democrats where meetings are, turning out the lights on Democrat meetings, and when there is a rare bipartisan agreement, they swap out the bill for the final vote. This Congress has only allowed one non-appropriations bill to be open to the possibility of amendments and without the ability to change a bill, there is no meaningful debate. Did you know that "the 109th is known as the "Dracula" Congress: Twenty bills have been brought to a vote between midnight and 7 a.m." It goes on and on with more horrifying things. I learned that Randy "Duke" Cunningham writes as badly as Lindsey Lohan.
Good riddance. The Democrats have to be better than this.
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