It’s been a joke for a while that if you want to get everyone in Congress together to vote, you have to schedule the vote Wednesday Dead noon, as Congress whittled away the start of the week and whittled away the end of the week.  The next House of Representatives has announced the introduction of a five day work week.  It is reminscent of the “Energy” and supposed Revolutionary fury of Newt Gingrich walking in.  Everything is different now, by God.  It is a sign of the Democrats’ fairly mild agenda that the revolution they are leading, the changes in House procedure, is to destroy the creative Four and a half day weekened.  It is also an interesting to compare how the last Democratic Majority became encumbered and how this last Republican Majority became encumbered, which is to say as far as I remember, the Democrats worked real work weeks.

Gibson: Don’t you think that maybe part of the reason the Republicans were fired is the public heard about this?
Kingston: I think its because we didn’t perform. When we were up here we were naming bridges and post offices. We were not having quality time again…—We drifted, we got off our agenda. We came up here and some weeks we just twiddled our thumbs and that’s what killed us…

“Twiddle our thumbs”, I believe, is a euphemism for “Debate Flag Burning Amendment”.

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