Republicans are decrying their Democrat counterparts on Capitol Hill as a "do nothing" congress. As if that's a bad thing? "Barring a burst of legislative activity after Labor Day, this group of 535 men and women will have accomplished a rare feat," Elizabeth Williamson reports in the Wall Street Journal. "In two decades of record keeping, no sitting Congress has passed fewer public laws at this point in the session--294 so far--than this one."

I find the quotation a little suspect. Certainly we have kept records of all public laws all Congresses have passed. And certainly many congresses have passed fewer laws than this one.

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Gridlock: sucks to drive in; great to live under.

Personally, I'd be willing to continue to pay them if they would take permanent vacations. Would be well worth the salary as we'd get more bang for the buck with them not making decisions and it would be overall cheaper for our nation as government expenditures would be strictly to keep the government running doing away with the extraneous stuff.