Congress....

If Congress ran Pizza Hut, they'd have to take this sign down.

There is a reason why people hate Congress.  They are on display today.

First, you have Cantor walk away from bipartisan negotiations because Democrats want to get something from these negotiations, too.  If you're going to cut spending, you'd better raise revenues, too.  Especially on the rich who aren't going to get gauged by the spending cuts.  Only fair.

Cantor says, "Screw fair, I'm out of here."  Behaving, in effect, like a six year old, over-privileged brat.

You also have Jim DeMint saying that any Republican who votes to increase the debt limit - in other words, any Republican who votes to ward off economic armageddon - is "toast".

These people are children.  And not especially bright ones.

Finally, you have the House vote NOT to approve of the Libyan air war but NOT to defund it.  A purely symbolic, impotent vote.  John Cole got there first, but I was thinking the same thing.  If you were Obama and had to deal with this Congress, you wouldn't ask them permission either.

When the GOP won the House, I thought, Good, now these bomb throwing a-holes will have to govern.

But they haven't.  They have spent what little time they have actually been in Washington mostly trying to restrict abortion.  They have not fulfilled their fiscal duties, they have blocked the executive branch's ability to staff itself and have done NOTHING to create jobs - when that is the primary concern of Americans.  Instead they have strutted and postured about the deficit, when defaulting on the debt for even a few days will  likely cost the US over a trillion dollars in the long run.

In Congress, you have too many inflated egos without the real power to DO anything.  All they can do is stop other people from doing things apparently.