Worst. Congress. Ever.

You were right if you thought this seemed like the do-nothingest congressional session in U.S. history. With just 22 bills passed this year into law, House Republicans are barely ahead of the 1931 record of 21, a congress didn't even sit until December.

Rachel Maddow noted this phenomenon earlier in the week. And Dana Milbank said just that in his column yesterday, calling it "do-nothingest congressional session in U.S. history."

So why is it like this? Well, Democrats control the Senate so that's a problem. And Joe Biden is in the White House, so that's another potential problem. With those impediments, instituting their crackpot ideas is much more problematic. And since doing something moderate, to the political center is out of the question, they're choosing to do nothing, concentrating instead on the presidential election in 2024 when they hope to go back to giving billionaires massive tax cuts they don't need, as they did during the Trump years. That's what the Hunter Biden stuff is really all about, as is their present asinine impeachment effort. The politics of distraction, in other words.

Since enough of the American public still sees fit to elect these do-nothing jackasses, we're basically in a holding pattern until next November. Nothing will get done because Republicans want nothing to get done.

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