Lame Duck Congress, Will You Please Go Now!

Ernest Istook / December 16, 2010

The lame duck Congress is a clone of Marvin K. Mooney.  He’s the Dr. Seuss character who refused to leave.

Refusing to accept the voters’ record-low approval of Congress (13 percent according to Gallup) and refusing to accept their rejection by voters, those running the show are clinging to their last strands of power until the last possible moment.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D, NV) announced, “There is still Congress after Christmas. So if the Republicans think that because they can stall and stall and stall, that we take a break, we’re through.  We’re not through. Congress ends on January 4^th.”

The Democrat Congress that refused to do its work on time now blames the other party for resisting last-minute efforts to compress a year’s worth of work into the holiday period.  Now while the public is distracted by visions of sugar plums, Congress is distracted by visions of sweet pork. (more…)