Do-Nothing Congress picked up where McKinney left off

In a recent post CM lambasted the 110th Congress for failing to address substantive issues such as domestic energy. Today's Wall Street Journal features a page one article backing up this assertion with enlightening facts:

"Barring a burst of legislative activity after Labor Day, this group of 535 men and women will have accomplished a rare feat. 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. That's not to say they've been idle. On the flip side, no Congress in the same 20 years has been so prolific when it comes to proposing resolutions -- more than 1,900, according to a tally by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense."

"In the 435-member House, fully one-quarter of the workweek is typically devoted to debating and passing symbolic measures."

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid must be so proud of their accomplishments. Ms. Pelosi is likely less proud of the sales of her new book, Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters, which is languishing at #13,051 on Amazon.com's bestseller list.

CM must admit its interest with a few of the Top 10 Congressional Resolutions of the 110th Congress as noted by Taxpayers for Common Sense:

• #2. S.RES.282: A resolution designating July 2007 as "National Watermelon Month," sponsored by Georgia Senator (and CM representative) Saxby Chambliss. CM loves watermelons, but would never pay $6,100 for one, even a rare black example.
• #5. H.RES.630: Congratulating the Warner Robins Little League Baseball Team from Warner Robins, Georgia, on winning the 2007 Little League World Series Championship. Sadly, CM's home state of Georgia is all too well represented on these lists of useless resolutions.
  
• #8. H.RES.89: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that a day should be established as Dutch-American Friendship Day to celebrate the historic ties of the United States and the Netherlands. CM is such a supporter of Dutch-American friendship that we will be playing in a highly competitive golf tournament sponsored by the Atlanta Holland Business Network.

Thankfully former Representative Cynthia McKinney never participated in such shenanigans.