Encouraging news from D.C.

This is encouraging. USA Today reports the following:

“Through Friday, the House was in session for 19 days, compared with 33 for the Senate. If they stick to their current schedule — including two weeks off in April, a week in May and July, plus all of August — House members will spend 97 days in Washington this year.

“The House was in session 108 days in 1948, according to the chamber's archives, compared with 141 days last year.”

The story implies that the House ought to be in session longer and doing more. I disagree. What really needs to happen is that these monuments to pomposity, self-indulgence and arrogance need to be required to get out of Washington D.C. more often. A House rule needs to be passed that Congressmen can only spend 100 days a year in D.C. The rest of the time must be spent in their congressional district working a real job or on one of three 10 day government sponsored fact-finding trips.

No more lobbyist paid fact finding trips to St. Andrews to find the fact that the new pin placement on the 17th hole there is much more difficult than last year. No more lobbyist paid fact finding trips to Hawaii to investigate “beach erosion.” No more lobbyist paid trips to Cozumel to improve US-Mexico relations.

The government ought round up these pampered whiners and send them to ANWR for 10 days. After about 30 seconds they’d discover that there is nothing there. Make them stay the entire 10 days forcing them deeper and deeper into the wasteland. They’d know once and for all that ANWR is a barren polar desert that would benefit from any kind of human activity – even an activity as nefarious as searching for a reliable energy source to wean America away from Arab oil which ends up funding both sides of our war on terror.

Round up the good and honorable Jack the ass Murtha and send him on patrol with the Marines in Iraq – if they’d have him. I know he’s been to Iraq. That’s not what the last sentence says. It says send him on patrol. That’s a bit different than whining, stomping your feet and crying “we should surrender now” from the safety of the Green Zone.

The last thing America needs is this class of self-centered, self-aggrandizing dopes knocking each other out the way in a rush to the nearest TV camera in Washington D.C. The less time our representatives spend in D.C. the better off the country will be. The less time they spend around D.C. lobbyists, the D.C. MSM and each other, the less time that they will have to pass bills that continue to erode our rights, tax every aspect of our lives, and turn education into PC multicultural feel-good experience rather than a learning one. 97 days is about right or maybe 90 days too many.