Congress Should Not Go on Vacation for Six Goddamn Weeks

It is hard to argue against CHARLES PIERCE’s point that while congress is on vacation. the president will be the whole entire government.

I know this may seem a bit out of the box, but isn’t this a particularly lousy time in history for the Congress to go on vacation for six goddamn weeks. OK, it’s good that they all get to go home and have people yell at them at town halls, and so they can help out with constituent service, and generally get out of Washington, which is godawful in the month I call Jefferson’s Revenge. But what say we cut things a little short this year. Take three weeks and not six, say.

Because, here’s the thing. With Congress gone, and the Supreme Court term finished, El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago is the whole damn government. I think experience hath shewn that this is a truly bad idea on numerous levels. You can get things done in August, even in the national sweatbox that is our nation’s capital. I mean, Nixon got run out of office one August.

There is a momentum gathering itself that may not last until everybody comes back after Labor Day. (Damn, football season will be underway by the time the government starts up again.) I’m just saying that, maybe, we save up our vacation time until we can all really relax again.

Fucking pelosi. I expect nothing but business as usual from that one.