Thursday, December 08, 2005
Congress Is Getting Nothing Done
Paralized by indictments and investigations of House and Senate leaders, the growing Jack Abramoff investigations into bribery of Members of Congress, including Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio, the resignation of Republican Congressman Duke Cunningham, admitting he took $2.4 million, a yacht and a Rolls Royce as bribes, Bush's record low approval rating, the growing public pushback on Bush's war in Iraq, etc., Congress is doing virtually nothing.
I was at a meeting yesterday at which a Republican Member of Congress crowed about how much the House was doing, saying they were passing bills every day. Someone asked how many of those bills he expected actually to make it to the president's desk for signing into law, given the Senate is not even in town this week, he flashed that classic deer-in-the-headlights stare.
To this Republican Member of Congress, all he and his fellow House Republicans had to do was pass bills out of the House. He didn't seem to realize much more had to happen before anything actually became law.
I was at a meeting yesterday at which a Republican Member of Congress crowed about how much the House was doing, saying they were passing bills every day. Someone asked how many of those bills he expected actually to make it to the president's desk for signing into law, given the Senate is not even in town this week, he flashed that classic deer-in-the-headlights stare.
To this Republican Member of Congress, all he and his fellow House Republicans had to do was pass bills out of the House. He didn't seem to realize much more had to happen before anything actually became law.
