Expect less from Congress this year

House Majority Leader, Tom Delay has given all Americans a late Christmas present.

The Washington Post is reporting that the House of Representatives has scheduled the lightest legislative load in 40 years.

"Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) has put aside 94 days for the House to be in session this year, compared with 135 days in 2000, the last presidential election year.

"'What it says to me is that the majority, together with the White House and the president, has neither any expectation nor interest in a highly productive session of Congress,' said Thomas E. Mann, a congressional scholar at the Brookings Institution."

To be perfectly honest, I believe Congress has already done us enough damage. Frankly, I think we'd all be better off if they weren't in session. They certainly aren't doing their Constitutional duties. The more they are in session, the more our liberties are threatened.

Now, if we could only figure out how to get Bush and all of the spooks who control him to take some significant time off, then we could work on getting the judges to take extended breaks. Then maybe we'd at least slow down the erosion of our country. Any ideas?