This is too easy.

This is too easy.

Politicians are easy game anyway, but this is too easy. The Republicans on their first day of control of the US House of Representatives are tackling the major problems of the USA. One of their first orders of business is to read aloud the entire United States Constitution. That begs the question, "Haven't they ever read it before?" or "Don't they know what is in it?" Sure there are lots of new House members, but did they really get elected without knowing what is in the Constitution? Now at least one did not get elected once they expressed their lack of knowledge of the contents of the Constitution. The Tea Party/Republican candidate for senate in Delaware asked at a forum in front of law students about where in the Constitution that it indicated that there was separation of church and state. That question brought laughs from the audience. She fell far short of being elected.

So, the new leadership in the House of Representatives felt that this reading of the Constitution was the most important business item. This precedes their proposed agenda of creating jobs, reducing the size of the federal government, and reducing the deficit/national debt. Their second order of business is to vote on repealing the just passed health care law. This is going to be done, even though they know that passing this bill in the House of Representatives will go nowhere. The Senate would have to pass it as well and then the President would have to sign it. None of those things will happen. So, why is voting on a bill that has no chance of becoming law so important that it precedes their proposed agenda of creating jobs, reducing the size of the federal government, and reducing the deficit/national debt? Both of these more important agenda items are for one thing and one thing only--to symbolically score political points. They can then turn to their conservative base and say that they tried to undo the health care law and that they support the Constitution as written and read. It's a good thing that we have all the time in the world to fix the unemployment crisis, reduce the size of the federal government, and reduce spending to cut the deficit/national debt that we can engage in partisan grandstanding. But that is okay. These are the same folks that were in office when the national debt doubled under the Bush administration. Don't you remember new Speaker of the House, John Boehner, standing up to President Bush when the national debt increased during his administration? Boehner was in the House during those years when the Republicans controlled the House and the Senate. Boehner voted for the tax rebate that President Bush pushed for in his first year in office that reduced the amount of money coming into the US Treasury and led to a deficit and greater national debt in Bush's first year in office. You don't remember Boehner and the Republicans doing that do you? That's because deficit spending and increasing the national debt are only bad when the other guys are in office. Boehner and the Republican majority and Republican President didn't worry about fiscal responsibility when they were the ones minding the money.

Picking on the Republicans for their first two agenda items is too easy. Comedians will use this as it is too easy to ridicule their first two actions on the House floor. They will score points with those that blindly applaud the Constitution reading as being what America is all about. This is not what America is all about. America is/should be about doing what is right for the American people and today that is getting down to the business of solving the unemployment problem first. Reading the Constitution will create no jobs.

"Do as I say, not as I do" is a often used phrase. The new wave of new government representatives should get on with it. Do. Quit with the posturing. Do! Make a difference in the lives of Americans. Do! This is only a new wave of changers of Washington's business as usual attitude if they act. Do! Their is a lot of talk about what the electors' message was on November 4th, 2010, I don't think it was all about jobs, or all about repealing health care laws, or about wars, or about immigration, or about .........fill in the blank. It was about Washington working. Do!