Our House is a Very,Very Nice House with Two Cats in the Yard

Today President Obama lunches with the House Republican leadership, which basically has nothing else to do.

Little Ricky Cantor blasted President Obama's speech before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because government should not tell business to create jobs. This from the man who said the first job of the new Republican majority in the House was to create jobs.

Rachel Maddow had a fun segment on the rigorous schedule of the new House--two weeks on, two weeks off, plus holidays including St.Patrick's Day. The schedule leaves little time to get any work done.

But our guys are on the job. Today begins the debate on re-affirming that our national motto is "In God We Trust", which the co-sponsors claim was true from our founding. Actually, it became official in 1956. Previous to that our motto was E Pluribus Unum but we don't believe that any more. The first use of "In God We Trust" was on our currency during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln was under pressure from abolitionalist evangelicals to seize the moral high ground in the civil war. Southern Christianity claimed secession was divinely inspired and the northern preachers wanted to take away the religious legitimacy from the South. Hence, Lincoln's compromise. But it sure will be a great debate with no one remembering how the motto got started in the first place.

The Prussian-like discipline of the new Republicans was on display with their snap vote on the Patriot Act. Because they cirucmvented the normal calender, passage needed a 2/3rds vote. The teabaggers rebelled on three clauses--FBI wireless wiretaps, library checks, and the lone wolf clause that allowed federal surveillance of individuals, not connected to terrorist groups. The Act was defeated, now making Democrats the number 1 party in national security.

"Grand Theft" Issa plans to subpoena all the names and records of every Freedom of Information Act request of the Obama Administration to determine whether the administration is playing games with them.

Peter King, the former hero of Bosnian Muslims, now will be holding hearings on why the Muslim community doesn't cooperate with the police departments. No police departments are testifying because they know all their tips come from the community. Instead, King is calling forth leaders of the Muslim community--like Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Just kidding.

Little Ricky Cantor now will move next week to insure that no money will be allocated to implement Health Reform.

Joe Pitts is sponsoring A Protect Life bill, which calls for penalties against health insurance companies who cover abortion procedures. This is the second bill in a week to restrict the right of choice.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen will be holding hearings on cutting off funding to the United Nations and ending foreign assistance.

Meanwhile, Gentleman John Boehner is saddled with the recent National Enquirer expose of his affairs with two women.

The FEC is looking into Michelle Bachmann's $1.5 million election slush fund for improprieties. The Feds are looking into newly elected teabagger Rivera from Florida, who has been voted most likely to leave Congress the soonest.

The fireworks will really begin when President Obama releases his budget, which will be declared Dead on Arrival. Paul Ryan is sharpening the knives to kill virtually everything, including government as we now know it.