Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader sees that McPaper is running a piece called “Lawmakers Get Out of the House.” The general theme of the piece is that our Congressmen (and Women) are on track for only “working” about 97 days this year. That would put them 11 days under the infamous Republican “Do Nothing” Congress of 1948.

So, to recap… For $165,200/annum, our elected Representatives are “working” about three months of the year.

Not a bad gig if you can debase yourself enough to get it.

Now your Maximum Leader knows that there is more “work” done in Congress than might be reflected by the actual numbers of days that Congress is in session. And further, your Maximum Leader knows that Congressmen have to raise completely sinful amounts of money to get themselves re-elected every two years. So there is some “work” that is not being captured by simply looking at the number of “in session” days on the Congressional Record.

But your Maximum Leader is confused… There seems to be some equation of not being in session to not getting anything done. Were that it were so dear minions! Oh what a frabjous day it would be when your Maximum Leader could look at a calendar and exhort that Congress wasn’t in session and so nothing was getting done in Congress. Alas… There are staffers busy at work crafting laws and agreements and resolutions for Congressmen to work on when they are at work.

Your Maximum Leader asks you all to stop and reflect for a moment at how much the Congress has accomplished in their scant (soon to be) 97 days. Okay. Your Maximum Leader will only ask that you reflect on one accomplishment. Spending more money, on more stuff, than any other Congress ever! Adjust for inflation and they outspend all the Great Society Congresses of the 1960s. In just under 3 months they have managed to blow a few hundred billions dollars. (Your Maximum Leader knows that the federal budget is TRILLIONS of dollars not BILLIONS of dollars - but he readily admits that some of that money is well spent. Some of it, admittedly, is not.)

No easy feat. Indeed, your Maximum Leader will posit that if you gave any sailor in the US Navy $10 Million and 90 days to spend it - the sailor couldn’t do it.

But the sailor would enjoy trying.

Carry on.