Nov.15, 2010 – PPM – Lame Duck Hunting

This week's PET PEEVE MONDAY (PPM) concerns the Lame Duck Congress.

The elections were held on November 2^nd, but the new Congress doesn't take effect until January 2011.

Some would argue that the current Congress has been LAME already. They haven't passed anything but the ObamaCare that nobody wanted.

The current Congress had two years to consider the Bush tax cuts and took NO action. COWARDS.

There used to be a need to have a ten-week time lapse between Election Day and the swearing in of new Officials. This was due to the fact that horse travel was the desired mode of transportation. We now have technology and air flight.

In fact, the current Lame Duck Congress will only be in session for about a week because of Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is really just enough time to clear out their desks (see previous blog about Nancy Pelosi.)

Rather than allow for any Lame Duck shenanigans, I would suggest that we do the following:

1. Move the Election Day to Black Friday or the day after Thanksgiving. Nobody works that day. Set up voting booths at the mall and other shopping venues. There might be a flaw in my logic if all Wal-Mart shoppers voted and were not, surprisingly, adequately informed.
   


2. Congress would be in recess from the end of November through January.
   


3. On the first Monday in January, the new Congress would take effect.

This would guarantee an effective transition of power. It would also make all congressmen up for election to run on their record on Election Day.

A compromise would be to make any Lame Duck representative to go (duck) hunting with Dick Cheney. Any takers?