Democrats To Republicans: Working Hard Or Hardly Working?

The veterans of the current do-nothing Congress are in for a rude awakening come January-

Forget the minimum wage. Or outsourcing jobs overseas. The labor issue most on the minds of members of Congress yesterday was their own: They will have to work five days a week starting in January.

The horror.

Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, the Maryland Democrat who will become House majority leader and is writing the schedule for the next Congress, said members should expect longer hours than the brief week they have grown accustomed to...

...Hoyer and other Democratic leaders say they are trying to repair the image of Congress, which was so anemic this year it could not meet a basic duty: to approve spending bills that fund government. By the time the gavel comes down on the 109th Congress on Friday, members will have worked a total of 103 days. That's seven days fewer than the infamous "Do-Nothing Congress" of 1948...

...He said members need to spend more time in the Capitol to pass laws and oversee federal agencies. "We are going to meet sufficient times, so the committees can do their jobs on behalf of the American people," he said...

..."Keeping us up here eats away at families," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. "Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says."...

Somebody call the waaahhhhh-mbulance.

Remember: Rich crybabies like Kingston are the ones who've been blocking a minimum wage increase for years.

[PS- Soon-to-be former members of Congress attended today a career advice panel called "Life After Congress."

And those patriotic Republicans are hard at work preemptively sabotaging the new Congress, "planting legislative land mines to make it harder for Democrats to govern", making us remember why they so deserved to be removed from power in the first place. Where are the liberal media 'bipartisanship' police on this one?]